- present participle of pine.
pining
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England manager Thomas Tuchel left the United States in July pining for greater control.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Instead, young women are pining for throwback, off-road SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
She’s a poet, and I think she really understands girlhood — the pining and the wanting to be accepted — and she does it in such a beautiful and majestic way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
“More cruel than ever. Don’t you see how I’m pining away?” and Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
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
I've seen your sighings and oglings, your pinings and sinkings.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
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
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
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