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Example sentences for: wistful

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He moves on to talking about his redesigns for lethal-injection systems, gas chambers, and even a gallows, while underneath, Caleb Sampson provides macabre funhouse music and wistful calliope waltzes.
She thinks I will approve, imagines me the anti- climactic aging matron of her future: a beaming, wistful blur.
You hated 'em, but you also seem wistful for the pre-Rudy days.
Neither does he provide any answers to the problem, merely a wistful remembrance of how "good" it was.
Embraced by green wooded escarpments and backed by snow-capped Alps, the lake favored by some of England’s most romantic 19th-century poets — Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron — retains a certain wistful atmosphere for the leisure hours of the Milanese (it’s less than an hour from Milan by train or car).