Words similar to longing

Example sentences for: longing

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

I eye our new old French neighbor with longing.
When Liz processes the facts of Max's non-humanity, the scene lasts a minute or two, an eternity in TV time, in order to register her sequence of expressions: incredulity, hilarity, disgust at the cheesiness of the whole idea, terror, longing.
The joy is in watching the actor transform, and I don't just mean Swank: I mean Teena Brandon playing Brandon Teena--the role she has been longing for her whole life.
This process of integration is rooted in a deep-seated longing for the possible, informed by the lived experience of the painful.
But that longing for a lost home, a secure sense of self, appears equally in Britain--or in Germany.