pining
Example Sentences
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By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
His public pining for a Nobel Peace Prize.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 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
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
I lay awake thinking about her, wondering how she was, and pining, grieving.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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