Words similar to pining

Example sentences for: pining

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(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.
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.
Who is this supremely sensitive and poetically pining paramour?
He's too busy poetically pining for his lost Catherine, and it's difficult to lech and pine poetically simultaneously.