Example sentences for: pining

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

  • He's too busy poetically pining for his lost Catherine, and it's difficult to lech and pine poetically simultaneously.

  • He rarely washes, smokes and drinks too much (amongst other similar vices), and spends the time he's not watching infomercials until 4 a.m., pining over a girl who broke up with him long ago.

  • If you’re pining for English-language books, Village Voice on rue Princesse in St-Germain-des-Prés is outstanding, but try, too, Brentano’s at 37 avenue de l’Opéra, or W. H. Smith at 248 rue de Rivoli.

  • Like most of those in the room, he is a wooly-mammoth liberal, pining for the days of Hubert H. Humphrey.

  • In the early phase of conservative lament over Dole's hopelessness, most Republican pundits were pining for ...


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