How to Use homesick in a Sentence

homesick

adjective

• He was homesick when he went to college.
• She was homesick for her mother's cooking.
• Many are alone and on their own for the first time, and some are deeply homesick.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• At this time last year, Beckham was homesick for New York and feeling out of place.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
• By the end of June, Kajsa Fernström Nåtby was homesick.
  — Mejs Hasan, WIRED, 12 July 2018
• But, something tells us the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aren’t quite homesick just yet thanks to their swanky new American digs.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2020
• Many trainees hosted by the volunteer families are on their own for the first time, and some are deeply homesick.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• With the San Francisco mayor’s office up for grabs in less than a month, Scott may feel more than homesick.
  — Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
• Wade, who attended high school and college in Tuscaloosa, was living in Louisville, Kentucky, at the time and was homesick.
  — al, 28 Oct. 2021
• Some are homesick for their Homeworld, but all of them have grown to love Earth and the imperfect people who inhabit it.
  — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
• Holstead, who grew up in College Station, Texas, came up with the concept while homesick in Montana.
  — Grace Wilson, NOLA.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• The business began in 2014 as a way to bring the homesick Juchs, who at the time was living in the Midwest and working as an illustrator, back to Maryland.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• Harkening back to his early days in the league, Slater remembers feeling homesick.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• If your college student is getting a bit homesick, a care package filled with familiar items can help ease him over the hump.
  — Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2016
• Many see it as a betrayal of his core audience, who have come to count on his knotty R. & B. pop: Justin’s supposed to be love-stoned, not homesick.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• But for this homesick Aussie, nothing really beats the jaffle.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 27 June 2017
• But for this homesick Aussie, nothing really beats the jaffle.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 27 June 2017
• Watching a Spielberg movie about a homesick alien while sitting in my Jeep Cherokee reminded me of that.
  — Frank Pallotta For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020
• Fellow homesick Venezuelans, some even driving up from San Jose, would line up outside of their house to pick up fried empanadas, fluffy bread stuffed with ham and arepas.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022
• Chief among them is feeling homesick, says Siyaeli (Elly) Moshi, manager of Dunia.
  — Lavanya Sunkara, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2021
• But soon Elisabeth Trump became homesick and wanted to come back to Germany.
  — Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• There are kids who get homesick for friends, miss the chance to play a team sport or have to abandon extracurricular classes like music lessons.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
• The British actress did speak candidly about being homesick, though.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 14 May 2022
• But privately many of the men admitted feeling homesick for their villages in Wardak, where Nifiz and his unit are from.
  — Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
• Research has shown that children who have more experience with time away from home may feel less homesick.
  — Jessica Grose, New York Times, 19 May 2021
• Filipinos abroad, many made more homesick because of the pandemic, turned to the platform, says Dorado.
  — John Kang, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Prevent homesickness Sometimes a child will feel homesick while away at camp.
  — Amy Bentley, Orange County Register, 27 Mar. 2017
• After five days, 1,200 miles and God knows how many nuclear calories, my back was sore, my heart was homesick and my guts sizzled in misery.
  — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• In winter 1942, a homesick McCardell, like other Americans engaged in the war effort, was away from home for the first time at Christmas.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• In late 1965, homesick and tired, Hurt returned to Mississippi.
  — David Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024