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Example sentences for: longed

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Haetzni said the Wye agreement had been a catastrophe because it had brought Arafat to the goal he had longed for--"instead of negotiations between him and the Jews, there would be negotiations between the Americans and the Jews, with the United States representing the Palestinians."
If Edgar Degas longed to be "celebrated and unknown," it was Corot--a painter Degas greatly admired--who achieved this paradoxical wish.
"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.
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.
How I longed for the parade of proofs, the excitement of rewriting and perfecting!"