Words similar to longed

Example sentences for: longed

How can you use “longed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

How I longed for the parade of proofs, the excitement of rewriting and perfecting!"
The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.
Worse, I recognized a disparity between my idealized self and my actual self that I had last observed in the seventh grade when I was a gawky girl with frizzy hair and no breasts and longed to be Laura Dessner, a girl with a perfect Farrah Fawcett hairdo.
She favored alternative punishments, longed to help troubled kids, worried about Draconian anti-immigration policy, and disliked the death penalty, mandatory minimum sentences, and the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
(And oh, how I longed for a detailed inside history of Netscape in The New New Thing . But, alas, it was nowhere to be found.