longing for home
Example Sentences
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A memory is unlocked in a pair of slouchy carpenter pants and delicate stacks of golden jewelry, and the longing for home is temporarily satiated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
So they are biding their time, waiting for the end of a war that shows no signs of ending soon, longing for home and refusing to think too far into the future.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
A dozen years later, while in graduate school in Illinois, an unexpected sighting of canned beans at a Meijer supermarket triggered a longing for home: family, the safety nets of reliable relationships and unconditional trust.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2022
Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for home that tears scalded his eyes.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
