pining
Example Sentences
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It’s still an expansive saga, though a graceless opening had this viewer pining for the 2024 French version with Pierre Niney as Edmond Dantès.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
And in an especially disturbing fundraising email sent in the very early morning hours of Feb. 13, Trump evoked the image of a lonely lover pining for company.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026
Their plight at the hugely unpopular and vast former athletics track is well documented, with fans pining for Upton Park's intimidating atmosphere.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 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 am not interested,” she told them, and even as she said it, she hoped that it would not get back to Odenigbo because she did not want him to think she was pining.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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