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
Though their family attended church sporadically in North Carolina, Adeem began to pine for religion in New York, hoping for a kind of literal instruction manual for life.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022
My drawing takes shape under my hand: lemon for the stars, cream for the moon, pine for the trees along the fence, charcoal gray for the darkened windows, all but one.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
