[ UK /lˈɒŋɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔŋɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
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How To Use longing In A Sentence

  • As she enters her 40s with a new husband and two stepchildren, she isn't longing for the days of her youth and hopes other women aren't either.
  • After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come.
  • It was part of an enormous collection of metalwork, glass, ceramics and miniatures belonging to Ralph Bernal, a lawyer and MP.
  • He picked up a necklace belonging to Dylan that had been concecrated and, concentrating on Dylan, used it to scry with.
  • It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.
  • When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.
  • There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God. The Right Knock A Story
  • Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
  • Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.
  • They are prolonging my life. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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