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Example sentences for: pined

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There are many things about modern life--air conditioning (in particular), electricity, indoor plumbing, supermarkets--that make me grateful to be living in the latter half of the 20th century and not back in the antediluvian or “good old” days so often pined for, and one of them is the knowledge (gained from the Introduction) that American newspapers and magazines published numerous short lists of wellerisms during the 19th century.
Einstein "must have pined when the affair ended and Konenkova returned to her masters, her mission over.