pining

Example Sentences

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His public pining for a Nobel Peace Prize.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

In his seven-figure Olympian existence, we can step out of our solitary pining into an enviable characterization, one that is seldom offered to characters that look and love like us.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

He is also pining for his young children, with the second one arriving in late November.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë