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Example sentences for: longed

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

This orgy of miscegenation has not yet brought the racial harmony for which Podhoretz longed.
(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.
The real Hickam Sr. didn't want his son to be a miner but a mining engineer ; he longed to see the boy follow in his footsteps but to go beyond them, too, and to use his science to make people safer.
We want them to have what Alex Portnoy longed for: a deeper sort of American comfort and success than SAT scores and music lessons can provide.
Coming from a staunchly conservative, two-syllable past, I longed desperately for such melody in my life.