homesick

Example Sentences

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She spent just one homesick year at Wellesley College, where the walls of her rooms at Wellesley were covered with pictures of cows.

From Los Angeles Times

I guess you can be homesick for a person even more than for a place.

From Literature

When I first made the big decision to leave behind my hometown suburb of Washington, D.C., and move to New York City, I never anticipated ever feeling homesick.

From Salon

He was homesick, but he wanted her to know he was OK.

From Los Angeles Times

The plan was to demoralize war-weary, homesick troops scattered around the Pacific theater.

From Los Angeles Times