Synonyms
Examples of longing in a Sentence
They looked with longing toward freedom.
She cast a look of longing at the shop window.
She never told anyone about her secret longings.
Recent Examples on the Web
Today, many Hong Kongers are looking at their city with a similar longing as the Chinese territory (handed over by the British colonizers in 1997) undergoes a tumultuous political transformation.
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Tiffany May, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
But thanks to leaps in computer graphics, Wingard was able to truly infuse Kong with a deep longing for home and yearning to belong.
—USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
After saving money as an apartment leasing consultant and as an account manager with Lancome, navigating a divorce and selling her house, Cooper’s dream became less of a longing and more of a possibility.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
Hurd, who initially started Bay Ledges in 2015 while living in Los Angeles, has a knack for imbuing his music with palpable longing and tangible energy.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2024
The island dramatized every rupture, deepened every longing.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Thirty-five years after East Germany collapsed, the vanished country continues to inspire in Germans a curious combination of loathing and longing.
—Katja Hoyer, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Throughout, the band specializes in bright, energetic songs with lyrics pondering the less sunny facets of love, loss, and longing.
—Tess Growney, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
The resulting series of escalating high jinks, which includes the use of blowfish poison, verges on the farcical, but the novel’s major chord is one of rueful longing.
—The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Tiffany May, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
But thanks to leaps in computer graphics, Wingard was able to truly infuse Kong with a deep longing for home and yearning to belong.
—USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
After saving money as an apartment leasing consultant and as an account manager with Lancome, navigating a divorce and selling her house, Cooper’s dream became less of a longing and more of a possibility.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
Hurd, who initially started Bay Ledges in 2015 while living in Los Angeles, has a knack for imbuing his music with palpable longing and tangible energy.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2024
The island dramatized every rupture, deepened every longing.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Thirty-five years after East Germany collapsed, the vanished country continues to inspire in Germans a curious combination of loathing and longing.
—Katja Hoyer, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Throughout, the band specializes in bright, energetic songs with lyrics pondering the less sunny facets of love, loss, and longing.
—Tess Growney, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
The resulting series of escalating high jinks, which includes the use of blowfish poison, verges on the farcical, but the novel’s major chord is one of rueful longing.
—The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Longing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longing. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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