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Example sentences for: longings

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

"Portnoy's complaint" is defined on the first page of the novel of that name as "A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature."
Margaret Thatcher, whom I quote with trepidation following your comments on the unappeased longings of conservatives, once observed that there was no female equivalent of the (masculine) word "puerile."
Seigel also says that bohemians have a role to play in society: Theirs is to act out the bourgeoisie's quashed longings and confusions.
And He Got Game is poised to be Lee's Great African-American Myth, a tale that encompasses the tragedies of the past, the turbulence of the present, the messianic longings of the future.
The uneven divide between communist ideals and materialist longings is one of the great contradictions in contemporary Cuba.