repining

Example Sentences

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More a conscious repining at their existence, mixed with revulsion at the thought that she occasionally had to share space with them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Far from repining in the sheltered world of the rectory, she was surrounded by sensational, exotic, dramatic life.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

It goes: Somewhere the sun is shining, Somewhere the songbirds dwell, Hush, then, thy sad repining, God lives, and all is well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet I have no fears now: what is done is done, there can be no repining.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya