long for
Example Sentences
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That was their simpler time, there’s always a simpler time and people will always look back and long for something that’s not there.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
It didn’t take long for the secretary of state to declare that the Brady Briefing Room was chaos.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
I long for the anonymity of the old Google search.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
It didn’t take long for safety to become a big issue, attracting both talk and action.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
“Poor Gurgi can wait, long, long for his crunchings and munchings. Many years from now, when the great princes revel in their halls—what feastings—they will remember hungry, wretched Gurgi waiting for them.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
