longing for

Example Sentences

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The first Palme winner, “Marty,” a romantic drama starring Ernest Borgnine as a lonely, middle-aged butcher longing for love, won the Oscar for best picture.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

In my time in Florida, I’d found a more complicated story, but down here, everyone had their theories, their longing for citrus nirvana, and their anger at the loss.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

One of my favorite passages captures Mr. Haskell’s first encounter, in Australia, with a Moreton Bay fig tree, its thick, leathery foliage crowded by figbirds longing for the tree’s fruits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

"We're watching the news today, with wars, with division, and, like, how much everyone is just so longing for something good to happen," Scoville said.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

What if that stupid longing for something cold and wet doesn’t go away even after you die?

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman