homesickness

Example Sentences

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The work reflects Kahlo’s ambivalence toward the U.S. where she often felt out of place and her homesickness for Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Maybe it’s just the premature homesickness in the air, but the first stretch of films I’ve seen this year have shared the theme of being a stranger in a strange land.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025

But she had never lived abroad before, and she struggled with a deep homesickness which she documented in emotional video diaries on YouTube.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

When I arrived at my alma mater as a sheltered suburban kid raised as an only child, I struggled with homesickness those first couple of years.

From Slate • May 11, 2024

We are free at last, but here, just at the moment the gate swings open, and we can fly the coop, Tía Carmen's love revives our old homesickness.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez