pining

I’m not pining for a return to the Victorian era, but politeness and decency should include respect, common interest and nailing a spike into today’s rampant narcissism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Before many learned Walter might be interested in selling the team quickly, Kushner and Iger, already pining for an NBA franchise, jumped at the opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

The boys were ready, were proud to be able to help out the U.S. of A. and whatnot, although the chubby girlfriends and mothers admitted they’d be pining for their men.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.

From US News ● Jan. 13, 2014

If my pinings and regrets have been so great, longing day and night after my dear mother, how much worse must that dear mother have felt for the loss of me?

From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles H. Fowler

I've seen your sighings and oglings, your pinings and sinkings.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Know, then, oh mortal Mardian! that when translated hither, thou wilt but put off lowly temporal pinings, for angel and eternal aspirations.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

Do not the dews of darkness steep All pinings of the day in sleep?

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare