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Example sentences for: longed

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This orgy of miscegenation has not yet brought the racial harmony for which Podhoretz longed.
If Edgar Degas longed to be "celebrated and unknown," it was Corot--a painter Degas greatly admired--who achieved this paradoxical wish.
(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.
"He longed for the earthiest and wildest kinds of sexual adventures," Lillian Ross discloses in hers, adding that he lusted after Hannah Arendt, Evonne Goolagong, and Madonna.
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.