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Example sentences for: longed

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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.
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.
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.