pining
Example Sentences
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“Audiences are pining for novelty, especially younger demographics.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026
For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
He is also pining for his young children, with the second one arriving in late November.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
I was even pining for Mrs. Wigginbottom’s sorry company—anything seemed better than facing another afternoon with our pint-size terror.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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