longing
Example Sentences
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"But it is here, and that means the next generation don't have to go longing. This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere."
From BBC
A memory is unlocked in a pair of slouchy carpenter pants and delicate stacks of golden jewelry, and the longing for home is temporarily satiated.
From Los Angeles Times
As Tristan breathed his final “Isolde,” the expression on Mr. Spyres’s face—open-eyed and naked with longing—said it all.
What follows is an affecting and funny drama of longing that features, of all things, a genetically engineered sheep whose poor health wins Marty’s sympathy.
Asked to paint them out, Gainsborough revised the work into an image of longing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
