pine away
Example Sentences
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“I pine away for the guys that were on that team,” he said Tuesday.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022
It left the 66,839 at Hard Rock Stadium with little to do but pine away for the American Dream of appearing on the giant video board.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022
Sally was an independent single woman who handled her job as adroitly as her male colleagues and who dated but refused to pine away for romance.
From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2017
The child seemed to pine away, and an old woman suggested he might want to be near the water, as his father had followed all his life a calling that kept him aboard boats.
From The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils by Webster, Frank V.
"I know it is," said she, "and I 'm one of the traitors; but anything is better than to see you pine away your life in a sick-room."
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James
