homesickness

Example Sentences

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Travelers hunt for regional souvenirs, soothe their homesickness and investigate a burning question: Is the hot dog different?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Skies said she had been out in Los Angeles "for a good few years now and I miss home a lot but making a very British album definitely cured some of my homesickness".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

I thought I’d seen the last of Jimmy, but I felt a longing to go north again, a sort of homesickness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025

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

The scent of burning wood reminded everyone of land so far away, and sunk many of the men into nostalgia and fresh pangs of homesickness.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong