pine for
Example Sentences
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The closures have walloped timber growers, especially in the South, where landowners ranging from Weyerhaeuser, with its vast loblolly plantations, to families with 40-acre woodlots raise pine for the forest-products industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Photos of Pochettino sharing a coffee with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy, that went viral on social media last week, served only to amplify affections among supporters who pine for his return.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
How much do you want to pine for “better days,” when maybe there was more under the surface of those “better days” than we want to admit?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024
As we pine for relationships and watch, speculate and criticize other people for leaving singledom for partnership, whether it lasts or not, it just compounds our loneliness, which then worsens the parasocial relationship.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
