longing for home

Example Sentences

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In Ana Menéndez’s new novel, ‘The Apartment,’ a single unit in a Miami building collects the layered lives of immigrants and others longing for home.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2023

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

Even without an example of that in your life, there are steps you can take to move beyond your longing for home.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 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