How To Use Longed-for In A Sentence
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With coaching, people from all walks of live are experiencing significant shifts in their lives and achieving more of their longed-for goals in every conceivable area.
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Despite being described as the most exciting and wide-ranging British actor since Daniel Day-Lewis, fatherhood has been his longed-for role.
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The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
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The room was twice as large as her longed-for bedroom in the cenoby.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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He had become friends in Paris with André Breton, finding his once longed-for -ism.
Joan Miró: A life in paintings
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The exams didn't go as well as hoped, the grades weren't there - and that longed-for university place looks like going up in smoke.
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That happy day came when Georgiana delivered William Hartington "Hart" Spencer, her third child and first son, the longed-for heir who she rejoiced freed her from marital bondage.
If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister?
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Young adults transmit secret messages of desperately longed-for submission beneath their consciously expressed frustrations and resentments, but can't be counted on to grok that media celebrities are not, you know, real.
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No one is saying that Japan will miss out on the longed-for explosion of Chinese consumption. But in the race for customers, Korean firms already have a little more spring in their step.
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Luke was a longed-for baby.
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Which therapists explicitly or implicitly exaggerate the likelihood that they will be able to help their patients make the longed-for changes?
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My father, who had no interest in fishing himself, eventually accepted this was no passing childhood whim and one day the longed-for parcel arrived.
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A pair of love birds found out what it was like to be treated like royalty when a longed-for letter from the Queen arrived by special delivery.
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Die here, in the embrace of Mother Ganga, in Shiva's sacred city, and your spirit will be united with the Absolute, will find its longed-for, eternal, perfect, peace.
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Instead of daydreaming about longed-for changes in family life, you find a way to make them happen.
The Sun
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In my part of the country, the oppressive days of late summer are now past, and the first hint of the longed-for winter rains have teased us by speckling the dusty ground.
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Through Edmund's influence Summers is given his longed-for captaincy.
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Would-be grandparents can express their disappointment at not acquiring the longed-for grandchild.
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Instead of daydreaming about longed-for changes in family life, you find a way to make them happen.
The Sun
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Make a list of your fundamental needs and your most longed-for wants.
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Then I realised that the longed-for news of peace had come through on the last news.
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Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
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Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia?
BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
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When you look at the games Marvelous does -- Harvest Moon, the upcoming Vanillaware gem Muramasa, and yes, my longed-for Little King's Story, you'd think they had the ideal recipe: family-friendly, universally-appealing themes with enough depth and gameplay sophistication to attract and sustain core players (Nintendo's own Pokemon is such a megafranchise thanks to similar traits).
Wii On The Brain
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People with terminal illnesses living in the Sheffield and Peak District areas will be able to apply for bursaries from the charity to help them realise longed-for dreams.
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School holidays have finally arrived, and with them looms the prospect for many of finally being able to take that much longed-for summer holiday.
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The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
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Her ailing father turned his face to the wall when he was presented with a princess, rather than the longed-for male heir.
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Our people believed that if you give a common thing the meaning of something else you really want—in this case, a bone given the name and mien of a child—the spirit world is tricked into thinking you already have that longed-for object and looks away just long enough for the longed-for object to slip into its place.
Freud’s Blind Spot
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The English rugby anthem Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was bellowed out by more than 600 fans, eager to see their team finally clinch the longed-for title.
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Margo was second youngest, the only and much longed-for girl.
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Instead of daydreaming about longed-for changes in family life, you find a way to make them happen.
The Sun
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As in "Araby, " the desire to consume consumes the everyday, in order to fuel a longed-for apotheosis of complete satisfaction.
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Crucial documentation surrounding the case is currently being studied by counsel in the hope of launching proceedings which could result in a longed-for conviction.
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She began to plan for the summer ahead, for Harry's longed-for leave.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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They are a happy, successful couple whose only flaw is the absence of a longed-for child.
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And now comes Woodward, who said yesterday the longed-for swap is "on the table" and could happen "if the president's a little weak going into 2012 ....
Take Biden-Clinton Veep swap off the table -- for now
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Whatever way you look at it, it's the most longed-for celebration on the nation's calendar.
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Three years ago, she began the search for a clinic which could give her the longed-for fourth baby.
