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Example sentences for: longs

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

The public longs for a deft campaigner who doesn't seem prepackaged.
Sheehy's Hillary longs to be given the same free pass--to have hers be yet another uplifting tale of growth in the face of personal suffering.
The theory is so elegantly paranoid Culturebox longs to believe it.
The latter, a compulsive obscene phone caller who longs for his sleek, chic neighbor, is the psychiatric patient of Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), who happens to be the husband of Helen's older sister, chipper Trish (Cynthia Stevenson)--and also a pedophile who, in the course of the film, drugs little boys and has (off camera) sex with them.
When a sleek and derisive colleague named Maxine (Catherine Keener) rebuffs his advances and mocks his art, Craig argues passionately on behalf of his puppets: He says that everyone longs to be inside someone else's head.