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.

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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
In 1998, just before then President Suharto stepped down, unrest and arson destroyed or damaged hundreds of properties belonging to ethnic Chinese in Solo.
Dressed in a leopard print hijab she collected belongings and her cat. The Sun
At least 70 people have been detained in connection with the proposed rally, on charges of belonging to the banned group. Times, Sunday Times
I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, belonging to the natural order BIGNONIACEAE, with terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate leaves; and a proteaceous plant with long compound racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
By his grace, we will follow the sound of the megaphone back to childlike longings for him and for home. Christianity Today
Phthalates are a large family of industrial chemicals used for their plasticizing properties in nail polishes and in dozens of plastic products, from shower curtains to food wrap; and for their scent-prolonging feature in fragrances.
She told me the camp was a vacation resort belonging to her family.
She cast one more longing look at the tempting bed before she walked to the window.
RIYADH - A cargo plane belonging to the German carrier Lufthansa crashed on landing at Riyadh airport on Tuesday, Saudi television reported. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
A small group of six chemicals (monocrotophos, glyphosate, metamidophos, zineb, benomyl and deltamethrin) belonging to different chemical classes were used by 50 or more workers.
A remarkable number of these programs end up with a kind of populist longing for Gemeinschaft amid the alienating Gesellschaft of modernity.
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a social activist in Latin America, Berenson was arrested on a bus in Peru in 1995 and charged with belonging to the MRTA.
On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
And Lina, Sorrow, and Florens know that if their mistress dies, "three unmastered women out here, alone, belonging to no one, became wild game for anyone" (page 58). A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Questions
It is a large family, belonging to the tropics and subtropics, and many of its members furnish important foodstuffs: the coconut, date, sago, palm sugar, etc.
Strong traditions can give you guidance, a sense of belonging and a sense of purpose in life.
Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
Many families report not being made aware of clinical trials, which for critically ill patients are often the only hope of prolonging life. Times, Sunday Times
It shows how uninterested capitalism is in preserving, prolonging, or improving human life.
He knew that a shallow illuminism had no correspondence with the deepest longings of the human heart. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
With this affidavit, the Hazarbuz tribe travel to the camping places by the specified paths, and while on their way and when they camp, they are not allowed to harm the arable and cultivated land of the Hazaras, nor may they [allow their animals to] graze on irrigated or unirrigated farm land and pasture lands belonging to the Hazaras. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
They fled their homes with a few personal belongings, escaping the acrid sulphuric fumes and lava of an erupting volcano.
Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom. Best of 2009
It's natural for people to feel a stronger sense of belonging in smaller groups. The Sun
Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
Survivors tried to enter damaged carriages to rescue relatives and collect belongings, officials said. The Sun
He made no move to assist his wife, who was now kneeling to repack their belongings into their boxes. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
She spoke the rude French of the fishing villages, where the language lives chiefly as a baragouin, mingled often with words and forms belonging to many other tongues. Chita: a Memory of Last Island
Some slips passing from the first and second ribs to the vertebral border of the scapula and supplied by the dorsal scapular nerve may be looked upon as belonging to the rhomboid sheet and therefore as variations of those muscles.
Belonging to a class of mood-altering drugs, barbiturates induce relaxation and sleep.
The moving specialists' first task is to help the seniors downsize their belongings so they can fit into, say, a retirement-center efficiency or a one-bedroom apartment.
He referred to the red carpet that some official belonging to the duumviri had laid down the full length of the jetty, a sign of kingliness that horrified Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra
THIS cheeky giraffe looks like it's longing to get some food and drink down its neck. The Sun
And thus the ideas of time and space have each its peculiar and exclusive relations; position and figure belonging only to space, while repetition and rhythm are appropriate to time.
The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
The next higher examples to be met are the frequently cited ants and bees, belonging to the lowly organized class of arthropoda, yet, through the advantage of association and mutual aid, developing actions and habits only found elsewhere in the human race. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution
In addition, that same belonging nonbeliever is likely to be a better neighbor than a comparable nonbeliever who never enters church. American Grace
These are put on show alongside her own recent and new pieces that deal with such shared themes as loneliness, longing and unrequited love. Times, Sunday Times
Who else challenges us as we look at depths in his life that makes us shake and tremble with longing to be like him? Christianity Today
The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host.
We have also offered to reimburse any expenses they incurred while they were without their belongings. Times, Sunday Times
Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
dreams," as he called her longings for self-improvement. Pushing to the Front
From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Now I'm just longing for it and the only version of the game I can find is a ‘collector's edition’ for US $80. Feh.
As much as he hated the notion of prolonging his exposure to those sons of bitches, once someone breathed the word assassination it all became a new ball game. Scott Free
Nascar and mayfield are destroying the sport by prolonging this situation. have mayfield take a drug test immediately and if he passes require that he take one prior to testing for every race and let him pay for it! if he fails kick him out of the sport forever. the best driver i knew, gary balough, was banned for life for drugs and mayfield should also be banned for life! Yahoo! Sports - Top News
By the turn of the century, gardens had become symbols of longing, nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times. Times, Sunday Times
I love my home, I love my job, I love belonging here, and I love this place, but it's trying my patience.
Life has made the children brave, quick-witted and self-reliant, but their parentless hearts are hungry, and that longing shapes their actions. Children's Books: 'The Emerald Atlas'
It is true that had I packed all my belongings in one huge box the same company would have conveyed them to the steamer for one and eightpence, which is the regular charge per package. America To-day, Observations and Reflections
*] A dwarf shrub belonging to the genus STENOCHILUS, but new, was found here [**]; and we met also with a large spreading tree, from which we could bring away nothing that would enable botanists to describe it, except as to the texture and nervation of the leaves, which, Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
The gangs sold their booty, families tried to earn money from their belongings and neighbours ransacked the homes of anyone who had not returned from prison. Times, Sunday Times
There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
People have to have significant social and personal belongings in their life. Christianity Today
The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.
After gathering my belongings, I let my hair down and smoothed it out after applying a little liner and lip gloss.
Whatever their secret longings, the family organized relentlessly around bourgeois correctness.
It was found by a man while he was helping his elderly mother to clear out her belongings after the death of his father. Times, Sunday Times
BRONZITE, a member of the pyroxene group of minerals, belonging with enstatite and hypersthene to the orthorhombic series of the group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
I closed my computer, gathered the last of my belongings, and loaded them into my seabag. A Nightmare’s Prayer
Instead, he pressed his fingers to his lips to contain the words that would expose his longing. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested). The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
The article returns discovery, in householder lifetime belongings is accumulated appeared two high peak value.
No other scripture of any other religion of the world contains any kind of writings of holy men belonging to another faith, caste or creed, or of those who were regarded as outcastes or untouchables.
A longing for home, and the memories evoked by the past, were no longer seen as detrimental to mental wellbeing. Times, Sunday Times
Police identified the man from belongings they found on his bike. The Sun
Case's lyrics are ripe with vivid imagery and longing.
Whether it's what looks like junk in the shed or his pile of gizmos by the bed, all blokes have belongings they treasure. The Sun
If the pollen from one of the genus Primula fertilises an ovule belonging to a flower of e.g., the genus Hottonia, a bigener would result.
Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
We didn't get any maid service the following day but that was fine with me because we had most of our belongings strewn around anyhow.
At the camp at Kokinia, outside Athens, 'lorries were being hurriedly packed, stores and equipment were flung about anyhow, officers' valises and suitcases were lying open with their contents scattered around as if the owners had made a hasty choice of their more valuable belongings at the last moment.
There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
Located in the town of Ingleside about 12 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, it was the primary home to minesweeping ships belonging to the Navy's Mine Warfare Command. All In for Texas Hold 'Em
Many products comprise elements belonging to different generic product categories. Whether the product is then called service, software, hardware or processed material depends on the dominant element.
The book is inscribed at the front as belonging to a Mrs Janet Maule and is dated 25 June, 1701, although recipes have been added over a number of years.
Aghazal played the cithara and sang all the lovely longing thoughts Akantha dared not speak aloud, and Adalana, with her flute, was an impertinent skylark who served as a go-between. Wildfire
Do you only really relax in your own space with your own belongings around? The Sun
For a small consideration my friend will help you move your belongings to your new house.
The pleasure and satisfaction of belonging to one of the world's leading whale and dolphin conservation groups.
You should not appropriate other people's belongings to yourself without their permission.
Their language is known as Cahita, being the same as that spoken, with dialectic differences, by their neighbours, the Tehueco, and Yaqui, and belonging to the Piman branch of the great Shoshonean stock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
How did a boy belonging to monolingual Britain get interested in a foreign language?
Northamp. late belonging to Ramsay abbey, and the year following had grants of the manors of Rarnwel and Warketon, alias Warton, in the same county. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu). Ancient China Simplified
Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal development. A Young Girl's Diary
That defines her character: the loneliness, the longing, the planning, and the meanness too.
When I was away from her -- oh, the easeless longing that was almost pain, the fanciful elaboration of our last talk, the hint of her graces in bird and flower and tree! The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Aidan was a genetic throwback, apparently, with pale skin and pale hair that was similar to that belonging to several of the family's relations.
Atlantic City's longest lasting attraction, the annual Miss America pageant, has answered America's longing for royalty since 1921, long before the casinos tantalized visitors with the prospect of becoming rich overnight.
Feloniously and Pyratically surprise, seise and take a Brigantine named ----, [11] One Moor Master, and belonging to His said Majesties good subjects, and out of Her then and there in manner as aforesd. did take and Carry away Cloths and Provisions of the Value of Two Hundred pounds. Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
Edward I took his lions with him - during his progress through his Gascon domains in 1289 one of his lions killed a horse belonging to one Ernaud Purpoynter of Oloron-Ste-Marie in the Pyrenees, who was also duly compensated.
Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. James Russell Lowell
Jews and Sikhs have been treated by the courts as belonging to racial and ethnic as well as to religious groups.
Keeping an eye on belongings is a hassle for those venturing out for the first time, but they soon learn that the secret is to travel light, and carry nothing except essentials.
The occupying State shall be regarded only as administrator and usufructuary of public buildings, real estate, forests, and agricultural estates belonging to the hostile State, and situated in the occupied country.
I glanced longingly at the bright green bottle of Mountain Dew.
They feel deeply the honor of belonging to the Senate.
When he saw the look of longing in her eyes towards the kiss Blake was sharing with his girlfriend his jaw tightened and he felt a sharp stab of jealousy.
After the massacre the local port was a scene of panic as people, mostly women, desperate to escape, fought their way up the gangplanks carrying their belongings and children onto badly maintained and overloaded ferries.
There are illegitimate children over the years, accusations of collusion with Nazis, shadowy tales of unrequited longing and profound unfairness.
When Donald and the Young Marshal arrived in the capital of Jehol, they discovered that Tang had loaded several hundred trucks with his personal belongings and dispatched them to safety. The Last Empress
Some 600,000 codlings are due to be delivered to cages belonging to the sea farms this summer.
He said that all 10,000 students would have to leave the campus with their belongings by last night.
Two face-centred cubic lattices can also interpenetrate in such a way that every point belonging to the one lattice is at the centre of gravity of a tetrahedron whose vertices are points belonging to the other lattice. Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 - Presentation Speech
Wearing a dress made of pineapple would turn anyone's head - especially those belonging to judges of a beauty pageant.
Though founded especially for military objects, as for instance the defence of the holy places at Jerusalem, when not so engaged, these knights lived a kind of a religious life in commanderies or preceptories, established on the estates belonging to their order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Membership of a group may provide an individual with a sense of belonging.
No trace of radiation has been found but toxicology tests could take ten weeks to complete, prolonging speculation and rumour. Times, Sunday Times
We left that house with none of our belongings and we haven't seen him since. The Sun
A nurse's aide gathered his belongings together, threw out a few unimportant scraps of paper, put the rest in a plastic bag.
You blessed darling!" she softly exclaimed, "here I've been waiting for you, and _waiting_ for you and longing -- _Oh_! An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing.
Answer relatively and the right of the underwriter with safe belongings and insurant and obligation coexist.
Sales of vast tracts of land belonging to religious houses and the former rulers also provided the capital needed to liquidate the debts of the ancien régime and establish state and public finances on a new and more solid basis.
I say I think I can recommend the book because, belonging as I do to the hairy-eared old-timers, I may not be in the book's true target audience.
I think of myself as a solidly nonracist person, but if there's a chink in that armor, gypsies are it, because I once tried to sleep on a Eurorail train and had no less than four gypsy urchins come into my car and try to steal all of my belongings. Archive 2009-05-01
The women "mothered" him, setting his belongings to rights at stated intervals, for he was not conspicuous for orderliness. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Weeks of ‘treatment’, bitter loneliness, and longing left me emotionally dead.
… So: dusk in the frozen lake of a city park, skating behind the puffy red earmuffs and the fluttering yellow ringlets of a strange shikse teaches me the meaning of the word longing… Forgive me luxuriating, but these are probably the most poignant hours of my life I'm talking about. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
After almost eight years, it is all a blur but I can still remember this sense of community and belonging among the people.
A nauplius consists of the first three cephalic segments and the appendages belonging to those segments, the antennules, antennae, and mandibles.
Then he went on a little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
I open my mouth and pant, longing for your commands.
A posh building in rue de Grenelle (Paris), its days recounted from two points of view, one belonging to a cultured concierge, the other to a little rich girl with suicidal tendencies. An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008
Journey on where flowers stay abloom until each lover has cast his kisses on longing lips-parted like hills with deep valleys.
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
Mauki's three tambos were as follows: First, he must never shake hands with a woman, nor have a woman's hand touch him or any of his personal belongings; secondly, he must never eat clams nor any food from a fire in which clams had been cooked; thirdly, he must never touch a crocodile, nor travel in a canoe that carried any part of a crocodile even if as large as a tooth. MAUKI
But official figures show one in five households has more than that in property, savings and belongings. The Sun
I emptied the closet and put my belongings into the black overnight case.
Hang on - all right, registry is Brunei, uh, Badger belonging to the air force. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
But pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.
His father was a land agent who ran an estate in East Anglia belonging to John Bradford's brother.
the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm
Hence the longing for an alternative policy, and the determined claims that one does not exist.
He took it luxuriously because he believed in his fortune, a kind of natal star, the common heritage of the adventurous, that brought him his good things in time, in return for energetic strivings in a higher direction apart from his natural longings. The Tragic Comedians — Complete
When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite.
When finished, we first placed our blacksmith's shop upon it, that is to say, our anvil, and large vice, and other valuable articles belonging to blacksmithery, bar-iron, and steel traps, and alas! John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey
This series of sonnets instantiates the physical nearness and reality of that satisfied love, rather than the distant longing of the courtly tradition.
The utility model relates to a multifunctional flour mill, belonging to the grain processing machinery.
The police impounded cars and other personal property belonging to the drug dealers.
The guards behind her had long since left and Ashley stared at the entrance with longing.
With longings, dolour, sleepliness and bale and bane? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The band is longing to get home now. The Times Literary Supplement
The way it feels like the cabin crew keep casting longing glances at your wallet. Times, Sunday Times
Ololiuqui, Safford pronounced, was in fact Datura meteloides, a well-known and highly toxic hallucinogen belonging to a group of plants that, perhaps not entirely coincidentally, he had just monographed. One River
Leave all your belongings in the clothes you take off, the door will automatically lock behind you.
She took none of her personal belongings. Times, Sunday Times
She seems to have found an identity here; a commonality of purpose; a collective longing for the old country and known gods and familiar people.
I have watched you and your crew, how you preach up selfish ambition for divine charity and call prurient longings celestial love, while you blaspheme that very marriage from whose mysteries you borrow all your cant. The Saint's Tragedy
From beyond the canyon's ridge, a wonderful bugle call charged the air, pounding hooves, belonging to the stalwart super troopers of Holt's Rangers raced to The Alamo in all their red, white and blue glory.
He looked longingly at the tray of cakes.
Obama strategically got to this point and there's no use in prolonging his success! Obama about to clinch victory, aide says
It is legitimate to fear that any grass belonging to vetiver's subtribe could become a weed. 4 Questions and Answers
The dissonance between the winterish associations of oranges at home, and the soft, warm evening air in San José was as pleasant as anything I can remember, surfacing an idle longing for clove-studded peel drying in the stove, for chilled orange segments with Medjoul dates, ginger and clotted cream and slow mornings of coffee and oranges. Coffee and Oranges
He'd never seen, never imagined, the like of this moment, and a vast, inarticulate longing seized him.
Some of the worst damage caused at the graveyard was to a vault belonging to Peter O'Connor.
I was secretly longing for a bunch of mooks to jump around the stage again.
If the old lady had not been restored to her fortune, her _personalia_ would have remained in the oblivion which, as one might say, had accumulated upon everything belonging to her. Balcony Stories
She was a beautiful old steam yacht belonging originally to the Guinness family.
He gazed longingly up at the immense, empty sky that cut across the nearby horizon through the naked trees and began tramping through the snow towards it.
But I have encountered more than one person, both in my past as a student and in my recent career as a blogger, who still manages to believe that, while they are formally Protestant, in the sense of belonging to a Protestant church, they are materially more catholic than either the Catholic or the Orthodox churches. Protestants who think they're Catholic
The importance of prolonging the moistened condition as long as possible is further shown by special adaptations to retain water either between the appressed lobes of the leaves or in special pitcher-like sacs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
All the great fairytales and myths are full of loss and longing. Times, Sunday Times
Why is the eurozone prolonging the agony? The Sun
She was longing for some peace and privacy.
a strange ring of regret and longing such as Almira had never listened to. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces?
Walking through the garden afterwards, she felt the usual feeling on their parting, fear and longing.
Antichrist assumes in mimicry the universal power really belonging to Christ. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There may be more than one group of wiltjas belonging to several branches of the one family.
Importantly, these patterns of transnational migration have not in fact resulted in the severance of the relationship between culture and territorial belonging.
CLOS DU TUE-BOEUF: The name tue boeuf means kill cow in English might sound more Native American than French, but such is the name of this vineyard estate belonging to the Puzelat brothers. A Year of Wine
Thieves had ransacked class seven, stealing exercise books belonging to Year Five children age 10.
Contemporary Christian music may be lame and uninspiring, but the answer is not to be found in longing, naively and uncritically, for mainstream success.
Belonging to a more elite corps, they promoted the railway by actively participating in the modernisation of the steel industry, creating English-style forges and a renaissance in smelting furnaces.
Who wasn't longing for the unasked question; ‘How 'bout I walk across the room and wipe that smirk of your face?’
Yes, I was surprised to see my grandfather, and my heart was lassoed by my longing for him. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
These nonentities are pierced by longings they can't name or fathom. Times, Sunday Times
None of his belongings had been taken, his mobile phone has not been used and no withdrawals have been made from his bank account.
It frequently happens that the contortions or displacements due to motion are seen to affect a single line belonging to a particular substance, while the other lines of _that same substance_ remain imperturbable. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
If you want to start a restaurant or a small manufacturing company, you go to the bank and get a loan collateralized by very real assets belonging to you or somebody willing to take the risk for you (like, say, your friendly Godfather).
In collating books in two or more volumes double watchfulness is needed to guard against a missing signature, which may have its place filled by the same pages belonging to another volume -- a mixture sometimes made in binderies, in "gathering" the sheets, and which makes it necessary to see that the signatures are right as well as the pages. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
Nowadays, fewer people are working in their local towns, so how do they develop a sense of belonging Whenever we step out of our local boundaries, there is always another "home" waiting to be found. Wherever we are, with just a little bit of effort and imagination, we can make the place we stay "home".
QE may end up prolonging the euro agony, not fixing it. Times, Sunday Times
Smith added that the shop received between 20 and 30 bags of cast-offs and unwanted belongings a day.

How To Use Longing In A Sentence

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