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pining

[pahy-ning] / ˈpaɪ nɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
languishing
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ADJECTIVE
lovesick
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ADJECTIVE
wishing
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Example Sentences

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For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.

From Los Angeles Times

In his seven-figure Olympian existence, we can step out of our solitary pining into an enviable characterization, one that is seldom offered to characters that look and love like us.

From Salon

He is also pining for his young children, with the second one arriving in late November.

From Barron's

I was even pining for Mrs. Wigginbottom’s sorry company—anything seemed better than facing another afternoon with our pint-size terror.

From Literature

Reflecting on this new approach to online dating, I wonder if we are going full circle, pining for the traditional dating culture of the pre-internet age?

From BBC