pining

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

Noah quit the Washington Post to start a politics web site, while still pining for Chaya, who worked in the Obama administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

“The one you’re pining after. The one you dressed up for that one night. The one you’re so completely in love with.”

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

Do not the dews of darkness steep All pinings of the day in sleep?

From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare

What hearts at war with themselves! what unceasing regrets! what pinings after the past! what long and beautiful years devoted to a moral grave, by a momentary rashness, an impulse, a disappointment!

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

If my pinings and regrets have been so great, longing day and night after my dear mother, how much worse must that dear mother have felt for the loss of me?

From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles H. Fowler