pining

Example Sentences

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Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

“I’m pining so badly,” he later implored, “I could throw myself down on the ground before you!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

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 • Feb. 14, 2026

And an indication that I was pining for the high times we had had in the big city.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou