yearning for home
Example Sentences
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They grew up in St. Louis, and though they lived out west for four years after college, they never stopped yearning for home.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
There’s a striking romanticism to the scene – a return to nature after the horrors of the trenches, explicitly tied to a yearning for home: away from Europe and back to England.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2020
Wilson is the first woman to translate Homer’s epic of adventure and yearning for home into English.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
He insists, she resists, and the push and pull between them grows agonizing because in this one instance you see a lonely child’s yearning for home, family, mother, love.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
Men on far fronts, years absent from their wives and homes, were left to stay there, fever-stricken, yearning for home, despairing.
From Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
