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Example sentences for: longing

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

Forgive the luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about--I learn the meaning of the word longing , I learn the meaning of the word pang .
He apparently felt the familiar longing that only the beautiful and vivacious Monica Lewinsky could satisfy (Lewinsky testimony, Part II, Page 161).
At night underground I imagine him nearby somewhere, long limbs caught quickfrozen in a runner's pose, fingers reaching, hard as marble-- I am poured out, O Lord, poured out like water --all night I dream him in that posture of longing, held and stilled beneath the motion and the industry, the unimaginable weight of our living world.
In their coverage of a recent on-set mishap involving Leonardo DiCaprio, the tabs seem to be longing for another James Dean--a young star who dies at the height of his beauty and fame.
The music is a swell of longing, regret, and nostalgia.