homesick

Example Sentences

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Even with all that milieu and surrounded by many of their countrymen, some Americans still get homesick.

From The Wall Street Journal

They made him feel wistful and homesick for his cave and his friends.

From Literature

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