pine away
Example Sentences
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“I pine away for the guys that were on that team,” he said Tuesday.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2022
It left the 66,839 at Hard Rock Stadium with little to do but pine away for the American Dream of appearing on the giant video board.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022
Sally was an independent single woman who handled her job as adroitly as her male colleagues and who dated but refused to pine away for romance.
From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2017
Therefore they asked "If our transgressions and sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?"
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Gaebelein, Arno C.
If she were not, she would pine away like her own araucarias which will not live outside of the wave music.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf
