How To Use Homesick In A Sentence
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Getting acclimatized to life in Glasgow was tough at first; even after all these years away he still gets lonely and homesick.
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He said perhaps I could help her because she was feeling really homesick.
The Sun
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A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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I felt homesick for a while, but then, after about four or five days, I started to love it.
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The noises of the camp drifted up over the grade fitfully, dreamily; some new hunger that might have been called homesickness was urging a new tone into the evening sounds.
The Return of Blue Pete
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But it took me years to get over feeling completely homesick.
The Sun
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A lot of people who come feel lonely and homesick and want to be hugged.
The Sun
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During slow moments Grandmother wandered out in the long shirt and trousers we call a salwar kameez, threading her way between the sagging hammocks and chatting with the homesick soldiers missing the dishes of their own countries.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
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Just minutes before, his sister Erica has finished leading a czardas with a zest that might make any Mittel European homesick.
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We become insensitive to pain, cold, wind, homesickness, thirst, hunger.
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After sometime I felt homesick and took a ten-day break from there.
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Deal clincher It's impossible to be lonely or homesick here.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt a bit homesick.
The Sun
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Then the land had to be cleared, and extra help engaged all while the wives were ‘fretful and homesick’.
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However, there were one and two who were a bit homesick for their old schools, but after a few weeks no doubt they will feel completely at home.
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Mother became homesick for her family and Dad arranged for her to take me and go to England for a visit in 1915.
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My first night there I, like many campers, missed my parents and became homesick.
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Suffer from psychological problems: loneliness, homesickness, depression, inferiority complex.
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I was terribly homesick when I first arrived here and missed my family very much.
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As I entered the premises, I was instantly engulfed in the warm glow of scores of happy yuppies, slumming aristocrats, homesick business-travelers and a contingent of restaurant critics.
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He said perhaps I could help her because she was feeling really homesick.
The Sun
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I've been away for so long and you can get a little bit homesick.
The Sun
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A UNIVERSITY student with a brain tumour was told by a doctor she was just feeling homesick.
The Sun
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She still gets a bit homesick, but she says she couldn't live in the UK again.
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Stepping off the airplane and into the Houston humidity, the first sight I spotted was not my homesick sister Laura, but a colossal bronze statue of George H.W. Bush.
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It's a shame for the pint-sized, goal-scoring scurrier, because according to this distance calculator , a move to the Italian fashion capital would bring poor homesick Carlos a whopping 7.6 miles nearer home.
The Guardian World News
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I am lonely and homesick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Uncle Nick came a close second, Robin and Jenny joint thirds; thinking of them all, Ruth ached with homesickness.
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Having moved to the tropic island to please his young bride and her family - Maximo, had always been, in his own way, homesick for the beauty and charm of ‘Italia’.
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“I guess so,” he said, and the phrase struck Tessa, who had heard nothing but British voices for nearly two months, as so American that she felt homesick.
Clockwork Angel
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We started off having lunch with Amanda's editor, the charming and talented Dongwon Song, at what he described as a noodle joint for homesick expat Japanese, which had thoroughly amazing restrooms.
The same four chords with different faces
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Whirling back a decade ago, he was the shy, gangly teenager, who used to shed tears at training sessions because he was homesick.
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It is natural to experience feelings of homesickness, awkwardness, or sadness in a new place.
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In recent years, a homesickness for myth - for the sensuality and vividness that ‘history’ discards - has inspired a renaissance of poem as narrative.
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They suffered from homesickness and longed to return to their native country.
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The thought of boerewors and a cold beer is enough to make any South African travelling overseas homesick.
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This looking backward and preference for bygone days involved more than nostalgic or homesick longings.
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Right now I live in a place where there aren't many Native people and I am homesick.
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He worked in Hamilton for a year, but was always homesick.
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One time in particular, she found herself feeling extremely homesick in America.
The Sun
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This is not to say that the upper management of camp needs to be informed every time a camper burps, but they should know about such things as severe homesickness, enuresis, and aggression.
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There were inevitable bouts of homesickness.
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Mike's been fortunate enough to head home about three times a year, but he's never really found himself homesick.
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He left his job largely because he was homesick.
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The first thing she thought was that his dark face looked sorrowful and homesick.
A Little Princess
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But she's enjoying the taste of the big wide world even though she still gets homesick for Alice.
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The pohutukawa stood to one side, its silver-based leaves causing her a pang of homesickness.
The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
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She helped many newly-arrived women overcome their homesickness and the difficulties of a new life in a strange land.
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I will feel a pang of homesickness when I think of them all around the dinner table together.
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For the first two terms there I was very homesick and if anyone said anything cross to me, I'd burst into tears.
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Not presents, not for themselves, it was the sensation of being given to, she was homesick for that.
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Here Gloria brilliantly discusses the changing position of women throughout history and what she describes as a "cellular homesickness" that humanity feels for a past, more egalitarian time.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom: Gloria Steinem for Miss Representation: What's New Is Old
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Everyone should come down here for a summer holiday to help me ease the homesickness.
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And yes, definitely the homesickness is stronger in the fall -- at least for me -- partly because my brother has an apple orchard and the season is starting to kick in and I just think wistfully about being able to walk out and pick apples.
September evenings with roasted chicken
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His 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" references the violence inflicted on civil rights protesters by cops ("Better stay away from those/That carry around a fire hose") but also reflected his growing cynicism ("Don't follow leaders/Watch the parkin' meters").
Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan
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But it took me years to get over feeling completely homesick.
The Sun
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One time in particular, she found herself feeling extremely homesick in America.
The Sun
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When you return to the street, you'll look around and feel a twinge of homesickness.
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I was really homesick and wanted to go home.
Christianity Today
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Deal clincher It's impossible to be lonely or homesick here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though Im happy to say that with each day the homesickness is easing up bit by bit.
Canada has nice goats.
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At least driving around with a storm-lashed windshield alleviates homesickness.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are feeling homesick for a red telephone box, Gibraltar is within striking distance.
The Sun
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Seeing other families together made him terribly homesick.
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He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful.
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Did I say a few measly hours ago that I was homesick?
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He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful.
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After the meal they felt rusty , and stiff - jointed , and a little homesick once more.
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Almost worse than his homesickness was his immediate boredom.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
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When I've lived in other countries, it's what I've been most homesick for.
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She keeps a photograph of her real family beside her bed, but if she feels homesick she does not show it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only did I have to deal with the whole homesickness issues while out there, I got back to a major earbashing off my Gran.
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Did you feel homesick when first away?
Times, Sunday Times
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Nostalgia, which we are apt to sneer at as a doctor's name for homesickness, and to class with cachexy and borborygmus, was a power for evil in those days, and some of our finest troops were thinned out by it, notoriously the
The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
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One elderly man with a hookah at his table stopped puffing to say: ‘He's homesick.’
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I'm not homesick, exactly, although I do miss our little house and the space and privacy it provided.
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The photograph gave her a pang of homesickness.
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This isn't to say that I'm homesick or anything (though I probably am, let's be honest).
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But one of her children is dreadfully homesick and frequently upset.
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She is homesick, lonely and unable to find work.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was really homesick and wanted to go home.
Christianity Today
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I guess days like this make me a little homesick, especially for Amber.
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The subdevelopment will likely appeal not only to upscale Chinese but also "Caucasian people living in Hong Kong who are homesick," she said.
Chinese copy of Austrian village stirs emotions
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Mum gets homesick and really misses her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Touring teams are well versed with the homesickness that can be a curse of long trips overseas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though there are campers who never overcome homesickness at a residential camp, the vast majority of campers do.
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My own dear Mollie is far away in Japan with our little darlings, and I am left here alone; During the day I am busy but at night I feel solitary and sometimes not a littlehomesick -- I miss my Mary very much and little Mellie, Charlie and Edgar, and as I often think of you too I have thought to write you a few times by this mail.
Letter from Young John Allen to Nancy Hutchins,October 4, 1867
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We've only away for a few weeks we're both feeling a homesick.
The Sun
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She continued to feel pangs of homesickness for California.
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John Paul II is unlikely to come among us again, and it would be a pity if he had left behind no image so vivid as of his homesickness and his beleaguerment.
Cheer Up, John Paul II
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Somehow, his voice made her feel a very, very, very teeny tiny bit of homesickness.
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The veteran counselor at residential camp may understand that almost all homesick campers will have a successful summer, but just try telling that to the crying camper who refuses to meet his bunkmates - let alone go to the first activity.
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A great wave of homesickness swept over me.
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One must recognise that homesickness is natural.
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She missed her family and she was homesick and lonely.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thought of being so isolated was starting to sink in; tiny bites of homesickness already gnawed at me, and I'd only been away from home for about three weeks.
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Mum gets homesick and really misses her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then all too soon, you come home and get homesick for the other place that suddenly seems more like home.
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She is homesick, lonely and unable to find work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did you feel homesick when first away?
Times, Sunday Times
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And couple that with the history of what they call homesickness, or as I would interpret that, depression, she may be out there contemplating, you know, does she want to go back to school, does she want to pursue this missionary thing.
CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2007
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If you are feeling homesick for a red telephone box, Gibraltar is within striking distance.
The Sun
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Eugene O'Neill of accident which keeps a homesick sailor tied to the sea in "The Long Voyage Home," and the mutual humiliation which abashes both victim and tormentors when, as conclusion to the panicky solemnities of "In the Zone," a parcel of Smitty's is found to be a bunch of old love-letters instead of the suspected bomb.
The Real Eugene O'Neil
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A UNIVERSITY student with a brain tumour was told by a doctor she was just feeling homesick.
The Sun
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It was six months before mine caught up with me and when I was too busy being a boulevardier I have to admit I was homesick.
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It's all made me dreadfully homesick for Costa Rica, and for all my friends.
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And yes, homesickness is universal, no matter where you're from, if you're removed from where you grew up.
On mole and matrimony | Homesick Texan
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#1 - Homesick Texan is right - real Texas chili never met a tomato.
A more precise Texas chili recipe | Homesick Texan
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Westerners expecting the standard sleek decor and prissy presentation will be disappointed, but those who crave unaffectedly plebeian Japanese flavors will return again and again, as do multitudes of homesick Japanese.
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She was suddenly assailed by a stomach churning feeling of homesickness, a longing for something familiar.
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I am lonely and homesick.
Times, Sunday Times
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So I came on my own, then getting injured got me really homesick.
The Sun
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Homesick, he noted how similar the landscape was to his native Tuscany and, acting on a hunch, he went digging for truffles.
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He felt a wave of homesickness for the dark quiet of the jungle.
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Uncle Nick came a close second, Robin and Jenny joint thirds; thinking of them all, Ruth ached with homesickness.
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Wow, you're right, could be Tokyo "mons" with curtains ... homesick: - (
The Gates #1
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I'll confess, one of my secret remedies for homesickness when I'm traveling in some far-off foreign land is to go back to my hotel and listen to National Public Radio on the Internet.
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And while homesickness and a yen to have the support of being the home team in a rough business lured the brothers back, they've set their sights on more travel eventually.
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We've only away for a few weeks we're both feeling a homesick.
The Sun
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A summer hotel stretched its verandas along a lovely level; everywhere in clovery hollows and on breezy knolls were gray old farmhouses and summer cottages-like weather-beaten birds 'nests, and like freshly painted marten-boxes; but all of a cold New England neatness which made me homesick for my malodorous Spanish fishing-village, shambling down in stony lanes to the warm tides of my native seas.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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So I came on my own, then getting injured got me really homesick.
The Sun
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A lot of people who come feel lonely and homesick and want to be hugged.
The Sun
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My mother didn't want me to go and of course I was homesick, but I was doing what I always wanted to do - playing football.
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She concluded chapter 4, her vision going fuzzy and a heavy ache in her heart; homesickness.
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I was terribly young, unhappy and homesick.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that moment, I also comprehended the love knot of homesickness of daddy mama, witch can not be expressed in language. It was a kind of stance and feeling.
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Next month he is going to Canada to try to drum up a bit of investment among homesick Scottish Canadians.
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Wrapped in kudzu and soaked in whiskey, his stories make me homesick, make me crave fried okra and sweetened ice tea.
March 2004
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She keeps a photograph of her real family beside her bed, but if she feels homesick she does not show it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Homesick Texan- thanks, the puppy is a keeshond, and the breed is known for having "spectacle" markings, hence the expressive eyes.
Puppy Love
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I was terribly young, unhappy and homesick.
Times, Sunday Times
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He becomes homesick, his girlfriend chucks him for a Tannadice midfielder, he takes to drink and gives up the game.
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Lest he gets homesick, how about some redbacks in the dunny?
Raymond Horne « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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This fellow homesick Texan is seriously missing a big pot of beans and cornbread.
Pinto beans, three ways | Homesick Texan
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Camp counselors notice that homesickness tends to worsen when a child has down time - during early morning, rest hour, and just before bed, for example - and that it can be contagious.
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He isn't happy to find himself outside his native realm, speaking a foreign language, but his homesick longing takes the form of self-reproach.
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Apart from the usual sprains, strains, stings and bouts of homesickness, the medics were involved in organising the emergency airlift of a critically ill cadet.
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Since leaving Delhi almost four years ago, I've grown homesick for the place.
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Homesick colonists brought their favorite flowers, medicinals, and edibles from the Old World.
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Thanks for the laugh, now I feel homesick.
The Sun
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Thanks for the laugh, now I feel homesick.
The Sun
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She missed her family and she was homesick and lonely.
Times, Sunday Times
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I felt a bit homesick.
The Sun
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Lotte Kramer has produced a bilingual volume of poetry called Heimweh-Homesick (1999).
Anglo-Jewish Writers: Twentieth Century.
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A second, more light-hearted book followed, about post-Soviet Russias illegal caviar trade, once Id got homesick for London and moved back to writer leaders on foreign affairs for The Times.
Vanora Bennett biography
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My own dear Mollie is far away in Japan with our little darlings, and I am left here alone; During the day I am busy but at night I feel solitary and sometimes not a litte homesick.
Letter from Young John Allen to his mother, Nancy Hutchins,October 7, 1867
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This ex-pat Texan is homesick for ruby reds at this time every year.
An epiphany about grapefruit | Homesick Texan
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He felt homesick, but made a brave attempt to appear cheerful.
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It means longing, nostalgia, homesickness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harriet was overwhelmed by a feeling of homesickness.
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To say I'm suffering from a combination of culture shock and stomach churning homesickness would be understating it.
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And then follows a note of homesickness from the man who had felt it so seldom:
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
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I've been away for so long and you can get a little bit homesick.
The Sun
