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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:

In some ways, it's the longing to be beaten into oblivion that's the strongest.
It can also refer to a more idle, juvenile form of daydreaming--to the heated but generic longing a pop star evokes, for instance, when he wails, "I want you."
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.
So: dusk on the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing . It is almost more than an angry thirteen-year-old little Jewish Momma's Boy can bear.
Stanley spent his wedding night forlornly with Hilda and many years afterward longing for a reconciliation.