Examples of longing in a Sentence
They looked with longing toward freedom.
She cast a look of longing at the shop window.
She never told anyone about her secret longings.
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At the center of tween-longing was a little store called Claire's.
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
The group’s members respond in kind, crooning the song’s longing lyrics in Korean at Minogue as the studio audience lose it and their other four bandmates, and J Balvin, look on with big smiles from chairs just offstage.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2025
Notes from the era reveal themes of longing and excitement of reunition, Kimberly Guise, senior curator and director for curatorial affairs at the National WWII Museum, told Newsweek.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Apologies and laments and longing are woven throughout the album, but the speaker doesn’t ask anything of anyone that comes across as especially loud.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
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Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
The group’s members respond in kind, crooning the song’s longing lyrics in Korean at Minogue as the studio audience lose it and their other four bandmates, and J Balvin, look on with big smiles from chairs just offstage.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2025
Notes from the era reveal themes of longing and excitement of reunition, Kimberly Guise, senior curator and director for curatorial affairs at the National WWII Museum, told Newsweek.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Apologies and laments and longing are woven throughout the album, but the speaker doesn’t ask anything of anyone that comes across as especially loud.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for longing
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“Longing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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