pine
Example Sentences
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A few rows down, I spot Mom sitting on her bed, rifling through the drawer of her pine nightstand.
From Literature
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He is also pining for his young children, with the second one arriving in late November.
From Barron's
The blackened, burned trees eventually gave way to live ponderosa pines, and then to untouched bearclover and white alder, and at last she and Dodger were back among the monarchs again.
From Literature
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"Please tell me she's real," pined one on Threads.
From BBC
I was even pining for Mrs. Wigginbottom’s sorry company—anything seemed better than facing another afternoon with our pint-size terror.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.