homesickness

Example Sentences

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The work reflects Kahlo’s ambivalence toward the U.S. where she often felt out of place and her homesickness for Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

What made you want to memorialize that homesickness?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Ishaan says filming in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a "long, drawn-out process" over four months, and a place where where he experienced homesickness for the first time.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

When I arrived at my alma mater as a sheltered suburban kid raised as an only child, I struggled with homesickness those first couple of years.

From Slate • May 11, 2024

I feel a swell of homesickness as I hear the sound of the worn, rickety wood of that front step, creaking underneath us as we laugh and get close for the picture.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott