- present participle of pine.
pining
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“I wanted her to let Marty have his thing. Deborah wasn’t pining for Marty. She wasn’t hoping it was her at the altar. She was there to support her friend and his choice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In Lagos, Itoro is still pining for his family.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Noah quit the Washington Post to start a politics web site, while still pining for Chaya, who worked in the Obama administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
I confess that I have no heart pinings for such nonconformists as Dr. Mary Walker or any other individual who believes that eccentricity, serving no purpose but to make one conspicuous, is interesting.
From A String of Amber Beads by Martha Everts Holden
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
The older hands laughed at their pinings, derided their complaints, and swore that they would rather die and starve there, than return home with empty purses, to be the scorn and laughing-stock of all Hispaniola.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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