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:

The GI envy felt by members of the Vietnam generation seems in part a longing for the clearer moral imperative of another time.
His wisecracks sound as if he's nervously thinking them up on the spot, and he's better than anyone at saying something he doesn't mean and then wincing in horror, as if longing to hit the "Delete" key.
I eye our new old French neighbor with longing.
It's easy for Americans to imagine that our mobile, placeless society doesn't give people much outside themselves with which to identify; indeed, in her interviews, Faludi finds many men longing for a mythical time when they knew where they belonged.
When the film shifts to hell, the muscle-bound Satan does a soulful, Meat Loaf-style schlock-rock ballad on his longing for a better world--in this case embodied by a ship of half-naked sailor types lolling about a pool.