Words similar to pining

Example sentences for: pining

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Like most of those in the room, he is a wooly-mammoth liberal, pining for the days of Hubert H. Humphrey.
Who is this supremely sensitive and poetically pining paramour?
But he counts on them to keep the press pining for him while he stiffs policy questions.
(Not that I wouldn't be mighty tempted by Lemann's pining for "a Merchant-Ivory-type movie theater," mind you.)
Cook is entirely hip to the irony of their relationship: Just as Eleanor was coming to the full command of her own powers, poor Hick (who quit the AP over the conflict of interest posed by her personal ties to ER) was pining away over having given up the career that had lifted her out of poverty and brought her every good thing in her life up to the time she met ER.