Words similar to wistful

Example sentences for: wistful

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

He added they should have been taken as "wistful," rather than literal.
Jesus is wistful, more than angry, at the continued success of the devil, but he modestly hopes that he is himself still of some use to the poor old human race.
Sifting through these relics left Yates in a more wistful mood than usual.
She thinks I will approve, imagines me the anti- climactic aging matron of her future: a beaming, wistful blur.
Neither does he provide any answers to the problem, merely a wistful remembrance of how "good" it was.