Words similar to pining

Example sentences for: pining

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

But he counts on them to keep the press pining for him while he stiffs policy questions.
He's too busy poetically pining for his lost Catherine, and it's difficult to lech and pine poetically simultaneously.
(Not that I wouldn't be mighty tempted by Lemann's pining for "a Merchant-Ivory-type movie theater," mind you.)
Like most of those in the room, he is a wooly-mammoth liberal, pining for the days of Hubert H. Humphrey.
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.