pine

You pine for an ugly deflection, a madcap own goal, one that ricochets in off McGinn's backside or the back of McBurnie's head.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

A menu, she argued, should not require cooks to spend 18 hours peeling pine nuts simply because the chef wants to demonstrate technical skill.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Terpenes such as pinene from pine trees, for example, can participate in reactions that generate tiny airborne particles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

DAUDZEVA, Latvia—Wearing strips of red tape on their helmets, Danish soldiers stealthily moved through the pine forest and then, unleashing a firestorm, overran a position held by Spanish troops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Quick on his feet, he often dashed across the Jungfem Bridge and hid in the pine forest around the New Johannes cemetery.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The area around present-day Shangri-La began to grow rich as Drolma’s family and other ethnic Tibetans jumped into harvesting the mushrooms, which grow naturally on the oaks and pines of the Eastern Himalayas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

When the largest fire recorded in the history of Channel Islands National Park erupted on Santa Rosa Island in May, observers feared for the park’s rare Torrey pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“The potential loss of so many mature Torrey pines is heartbreaking,” Channel Islands National Park Supt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The air under the pines was thick and shady.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

But there’s one confection I’ve pined for, one tied to the memory of my mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

"Please tell me she's real," pined one on Threads.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

Nick Martinez, 35, SP, 2.3, 11.2: Martinez is a swingman who has pined for the workload and pay of a full-time starter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

Yet, there is one thing that Manilow has always pined for and now inspires some irrational fears: a Broadway show.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

We’d sung along with any group or singer who joined us through speakers as the bass boomed low and the treble pined high.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

She’s a poet, and I think she really understands girlhood — the pining and the wanting to be accepted — and she does it in such a beautiful and majestic way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

Speaking to the BBC from New York, Baranski said she had been pining to return to her theatre roots for some time.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

His pining for our father is unbearable, but he is the man of the house now and cannot speak openly of his suffering.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung