pine

Some tourists waited under a pine tree while others hurried up the Via dei Fori Imperiali, wearing hats or carrying umbrellas to escape the infernal sun.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

While car collectors pine for restored cars, many young women prefer restomods, short for restored and modified, that retain their vintage exterior but are updated with modern comforts and safety features.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Many of the news stories highlighted the threat to the unique plants and animals inhabiting the island off the coast of Santa Barbara, from plucky, pint-sized foxes to the rarest pine trees in North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

All the denizens of Thoreau’s Cape Cod, from its scraggly scrub pine trees to its people, exemplify the humility that goes hand-in-hand with danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Abby crawled under the roof and lay face down on the pine boughs.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Any justice who pines for the spotlight can give as many interviews and speak at as many law schools as he or she likes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Rich Klaben, a dealer with Ford and Jeep-Ram stores in Kent, Ohio, pines for the smaller Ford Ranger that his family dealership used to sell in droves in the 1980s and 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Unlike other pines, the island Torrey pines are not fire-adapted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Additionally, just this March, it opened a conservation grove of Torrey pines grown from seeds collected on Santa Rosa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The moon hung low over a ridge lined with pines and oak trees.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

He pined for more: “I’d be micro-editing PowerPoint presentations and thinking, ‘What am I doing with my life?’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

Mr. Butzel told The New York Times in 2000 that as a lawyer’s son he “felt obligated to be a lawyer, but it was nothing I pined to do.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Latino representation is something long pined for in South Los Angeles, the historical heart of Black L.A. that is now nearly two-thirds Latino.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

Several residents still pined for a separate state, leading India’s Parliament to establish Sikh- and Hindu-dominated states in the north, respectively recognized as Punjab and Haryana, by 1966.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023

She pined away sitting on the ground out-of-doors where she could watch him, turning her face and following him with her eyes as he journeyed over the sky.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Instead, young women are pining for throwback, off-road SUVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.

From Barron's ● May 24, 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

It’s not like I expected him to sit home all weekend, pining for me, but would it have killed him to act a little disappointed?

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson