longing for home
Example Sentences
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In Ana Menéndez’s new novel, ‘The Apartment,’ a single unit in a Miami building collects the layered lives of immigrants and others longing for home.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Most of the band took up jobs as day labourers and casual workers to make ends meet and the songs they perform, composed in Khartoum, are full of anguish and longing for home.
From BBC • May 8, 2023
Yet in both examples, it is that longing for home that can serve as the foundation, eventually allowing you to find that path.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
Muriel, longing for home, is beckoned by the local racetrack.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2019
Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for home that tears scalded his eyes.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
