- present participle of pine.
pining
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Before many learned Walter might be interested in selling the team quickly, Kushner and Iger, already pining for an NBA franchise, jumped at the opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
And an indication that I was pining for the high times we had had in the big city.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.
From US News ● Jan. 13, 2014
I've seen your sighings and oglings, your pinings and sinkings.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
The older hands laughed at their pinings, derided their complaints, and swore that they would rather die and starve there, than return home with empty purses, to be the scorn and laughing-stock of all Hispaniola.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
Know, then, oh mortal Mardian! that when translated hither, thou wilt but put off lowly temporal pinings, for angel and eternal aspirations.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
I confess that I have no heart pinings for such nonconformists as Dr. Mary Walker or any other individual who believes that eccentricity, serving no purpose but to make one conspicuous, is interesting.
From A String of Amber Beads by Martha Everts Holden
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