longing

Example Sentences

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By contrast, on social media, Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

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

What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.

From Barron's • May 7, 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

How well I recall it, how grateful I am that not all the clamour which invaded our lives later could subdue the memory or still the longing for it.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya