yearning for home
Example Sentences
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They grew up in St. Louis, and though they lived out west for four years after college, they never stopped yearning for home.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
There’s a striking romanticism to the scene – a return to nature after the horrors of the trenches, explicitly tied to a yearning for home: away from Europe and back to England.
From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2020
Wilson is the first woman to translate Homer’s epic of adventure and yearning for home into English.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018
He insists, she resists, and the push and pull between them grows agonizing because in this one instance you see a lonely child’s yearning for home, family, mother, love.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2012
The ignorance it displays is droll enough; but the keen yearning for home, the longing after domestic affection and remembrance, the dread of being forgotten, are all very touching.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various