How To Use Pining In A Sentence

Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere. Pride and Prejudice
I was so defensive because I saw people who hated New York City, or at least didn't care very much about it, trying to act as if they were extremely invested in recovering from the attacks, or opining about the causes or effects of the attacks. Seven is Angry, Sadly - Anil Dash
The will of Providence be resigned to in the rest: as that leads, let me patiently and unrepiningly follow! — Clarissa Harlowe
If you have been pining for Dales meadows brilliant with flowers the ones by the quiet lane are fair enough, yellow with buttercups, and the verges red with campions.
Nor will you benefit from a foreign placement spent pining for home. Times, Sunday Times

Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day. Reuters: Top News
Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love. EVERVILLE
Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
I had rejections, a string of unrequited loves that I laid awake at night uselessly pining over, and once I even got caught in a bear trap.
Further, some pundits are opining that only when non-food crops and agricultural waste are enzymatically convertible by biotechnology to ethanol on an industrial scale, should they form even 10% of car fuel. Sunil Chacko: Robert Zoellick's Slightly Tardy Clarion Calls
We hadn't come 5,000 miles to a land of forests to spend our time pining for theme parks made out of little plastic bricks.
He's feeling crook, pining for his bed, but the game face stays on.
Now it is him on record as opining that ‘deficits don't matter’.
I really don't know if I shot the transmission too (gear box is J160 from JDM altezza and I'm only making 170whp) as far as I know the J160 is reliable up too almost 600hp?? did I shot my gearbox too? keep in mind that if I press the clutch pedal, the shaft stop spining NASIOC
Edie Falco plays Marly, a hard-drinking late-thirtysomething woman, working at her dad's motel and diner, hassled by her good-for-nothing ex-husband and pining for a way out of there.
If not, they might at least learn to submit unrepiningly to that comparatively moderate degree of notice and regard which is the due of those who are perfectly ordinary in their minds, and fit only to take a place amongst the audience. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852
You shouldn't waste too much of your life pining away. The Sun
Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
There was sensible Toby, forthright Helen, caring Belinda, laddish Ben, ladette Claire, loud-mouthed Luke, motherly Lisa and besotted Justin, who spent the whole time pining for his girlfriend.
So, who can blame American executives for pining for the day when the future and the present practically coincide?
A future monarchy cannot rest on an individual pining for the past.
If pining for the object of your affections is your preoccupation, Asawa offers plenty of support here in these amatory plaints.
She'd be sitting at home pining for her lost husband.
Be still, sad heart! And cease repining, behind th clouds is the sun still shining.
But as he had met life, so he now met death -- calmly and unrepiningly, certain that hard as it had been hard as it seemed now, it must yet be for the best -- the solving of the riddle he left to God. Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls
Edie Falco plays Marly, a hard-drinking late-thirtysomething woman, working at her dad's motel and diner, hassled by her good-for-nothing ex-husband and pining for a way out of there.
She made it quite clear that she had no interest in me, and I would spend long periods of time pining over her - and rather enjoying the unrequited sense of melancholy this provided.
She is beneficent in will and speech: It is Isis the beneficent, the avenger of her brother: she unrepiningly sought him: Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
It is not a matter of pining after a more realistic ending, or for that matter after a cheap propagandistic ending.
But for American Scots pining for a taste of the old country, there's nothing like a haggis from Scotland and that's where the smugglers come in.
Best friend or not, he had let his chance with Krystal pass time and time again, pining away for Jess, a woman he could not have.
I hated it when I was a teenager, sulking under the restrictions of life in a small village, pining to run away to London, to wear lace leggings, kohl my eyes, and backcomb my hair like the girls in Just Seventeen. *Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
She was still pining over Tom, but felt that she had to carry on.
All the time he was talking, I was staring at the equipment laid out in front of us and inwardly pining to be set free on it all afternoon.
Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love. EVERVILLE
Today my editor upbraided me for the superfluous ornateness of my prose, opining that my headline, ‘Indigenous demoiselle is triumphant in natatorial tourney’ might more fittingly have been rendered, ‘Local girl wins swimming contest.’
She is pining to travel abroad.
In the other locker room, Carmelo Anthony was opining that a Denver victory would so decimate the Wolves that the entire franchise would go out of business.
Composers such as Finnissy and Dillon illustrate his impact, and a host of younger ones were at the South Bank, among them Jonathan Cole, on the Purcell Room panel, opining that only ‘a few dinosaurs’ would have a problem with the composer.
No one spending long hours at work, pining for their baby is happy, but neither is a mother bored and depressed at home who longs to get back to her job.
Others offend in overmuch fasting: pining adays, saith [1435] Guianerius, and waking anights, as many Moors and Turks in these our times do. Anatomy of Melancholy
He was actually worrying and pining in his heart, but he could not say anything.
It bleats like a child at its father's wake, relentlessly pining to crescendo before it collapses, exhausted, in its mother's arms.
They throw themselves upon the ground, in vexation at their troubles, and there they lie at the head of all the streets, complaining to all that pass by (Lam.i. 12), pining away for want of necessary food; there they lie like a wild bull in a net, fretting and raging, struggling and pulling, to help themselves, but entangling themselves so much the more, and making their condition the worse by their own passions and discontents. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Mary, remitted from beloved friends to an uncongenial stepmother, was doubtless on her part pining for sympathy. Biography in the DNB
It is the Holy Spirit--'rest for the weary, refreshment for the pining, solace in the midst of woe'--who imparts to the soul an imperturbable poise and a serene calm, the character of recollectedness, the soaring lightness of a full inner freedom. Finding Peace
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Now that I was out and about, I was feeling a little stronger and wasn't about to spend the rest of the night pining after some guy.
What Might Have Been is a melancholy sojourn through pining over possibilities.
Marines returning from Iraq and the Persian Gulf were pining for pita, according to focus-group surveys conducted on the base.
She is pining to travel abroad.
Moreover, nothing is more certain than that the preamble alluded to never included, in the minds of those who framed it, _those who were then pining in bondage_ -- for, in that case, a general emancipation of the slaves would have instantly been proclaimed throughout the United States. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4
More like the whiniest dog you can possibly imagine pining for the days when the press was nice to her, which if you remember was that way. Palin: 'The media will never understand'
At one time this would have raised eyebrows - all those lonely spinsters and neglected bachelors sitting at home, pining for a mate.
As the host (some household name) opens the show, imagine that the white expert opining about the root causes of urban decay is a nationally recognized racist, like for instance, David Duke. Keith Ellison: Should we fear Islam?
His friends would say stop pining, there's others girls to look at.
Our flight attendant didn't have to ask to gauge my level of interest in the complimentary muffin - my demeanor wasn't far from that of a baby bird pining for a little extra minnow.
Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld found him there in the last days of Prohibition, "an old-timer in the profession," pining for the lost days of glorious garnish: "He'll befriend the first man who seriously asks him for a brandy crusta. Consider the Trimmings
'In the spring, the young man's fancy lightly turned to thoughts of love,' as lads and lasses, who had been pining for each other by their winter firesides, met again, like Daphnis and Chloe, by shaugh and lea; and learnt to sing from the songs of birds, and to be faithful from their faithfulness. Prose Idylls, New and Old
You shouldn't waste too much of your life pining away. The Sun
Anyway, to stop me pining for my family, Reginald suggested we join a group protesting against a proposed massive wind-turbine development.
Women were antagonistic to him, and Mrs. Mangan, godly matron though she was, seemed to him to symbolize a very different ordering of life to that which he approved; but the Big Doctor was an asset of the Church who must be simpered upon, and for whose sake a little social boredom must be unrepiningly endured. Mount Music
Providence be resigned to in the rest: as that leads, let me patiently and unrepiningly follow! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
I am pining for my lover
Talbot-Lowry (D.L., and J.P.) to humanity, that his race should multiply and replenish the earth, and Lady Isabel had unrepiningly obliged humanity to the extent of four sons and two daughters. Mount Music
Anything to keep oneself entertained on those long, lonely evenings when pining for unavailable men.
Smooth, like a Rhapsody: I thought by the title that the commentators from the show “Inside Baseball” were opining on national security. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside Baseball on Obama Legal Team Deliberations on National Security
I can just see Amy pining for Barack, while Jon Stewart suffers in unrequited love. 5 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Remade | Fandomania
She sat in the house day after day, pining for her lover.
I even kind of pitied him -- he was so scorned and slighted; and for all he'd a bold look about him, as if he were not ashamed, he seemed pining and shrunk. Sexton's Hero
Still in his twenties, he swanked his way through the Belfast-based international news media, lunching with key opinion-makers, opining every night on local television.
He plays with the idea of being a besotted admirer, pining. Times, Sunday Times
If he did, he'd find, not only arguments like that, but even some nuts pining for the imposition of a fascist state or some other form of dictatorship.
Some might call it modern art, but I'll be pining for my classic landscape.
I have weighed the yeas and nays with the kind of practiced, not to say jaundiced, assay that those of us in the opining rackets routinely bring to such emotionally resonant issues as, say, tax policy or the federal highway fund.
A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital.
As well organized and concisely accurate as it is, the book will still be dauntingly massive for many users pining for some simple, quick reference method for getting at specific features and techniques.
A marmoset monkey was pining for his lost brother last night after thieves snatched him in a daylight heist.
Been at home pining for some place to go," said Ernestine drawing the sewing from Bea's hand, and leaning over into that sister's lap with a caressive gesture. Six Girls A Home Story
He was equally candid in opining that ‘both parties have been guilty of this’ and that there is definitely some ‘payback going on here.’
Away with all these whining, pining Carpers, who are constantly talking & prating that the married estate brings nothing but care and sorrow with it; here, to the contrary, they may see how all minds & intentions are knit together, to consume and pass away these daies with the most superabounding pleasures. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Jason has been pining after this girl since high school!
The Soviet government did not waste time repining over Daoud.
I thought by the title that the commentators from the show “Inside Baseball” were opining on national security. The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside Baseball on Obama Legal Team Deliberations on National Security
Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
Six months after he left, she was still pining.
Marissa, played by maybe the worst actress of all time, frolics around in her absurdly short miniskirts, hiding her drinking problem and pining over her broken family.
He had never seen signs of an adult sheep pining for another.
At this point, she chimes in, opining that it is of the utmost importance to have people around you who tell you the truth.
Mohammed dreamt up his alter ego working behind the counter at a drugstore, pining for something to freshen the job's tedium.
Yes, sister," said he, with a theatrical tone, "I see the dire necessity, and submit to it unrepiningly. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
Those of us pining for the sensuality of the tropical island often forget that paradise is, at root, a religious notion.
She appeared to him to be pining "capriciously" when she became thin and neurotic. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
To Hunilla, pain seemed so necessary, that pain in other beings, though by love and sympathy made her own, was unrepiningly to be borne. The Piazza Tales
Investors have been clamoring for Chinese stocks like children pining for more dessert.
In this case, beauty really is skin deep because no one is pining for drum brakes, beam axles and carburetors.
He pshawed me, accused me of being in denial of incipient middle-age and merely affecting to like ‘the crew’ whilst pining for Celine Dion or Dido.
Norquist is apparently pining away for the day when America has the same tax system as economic powerhouses like Russia, the Ukraine, and Iraq.
She is now back in civvies and one doubts she is pining for her days in the blue uniform.
Not just in a figure of speech kind of way, but genuinely in love - jittery in its presence, pining during its absence, utterly fulfilled and completed during the time you spend with it?
She was pining for the mountains of her native country.
With that in mind, rather than pining for the good old days and spinning the roulette wheel, maybe the solution is to get in the game.
Mahony and, sure as shooting, my conservative Catholic readers start pining for crackdowns, big sticks, and papal micromanagement of the American Church.
` ` Gold is looking strong and all set to test the next level of USD 1,250 mark in the international market, ` ` notes Tarun Satsangi AVP, Bonanza Commodity Broker while opining on the trends of the gold for the coming week. (i. e weekended Dec. 12, 2009) News [email protected] India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination
They mate for life, although tales of them pining away after the loss of a mate have not been proven.
The bank had not been to blame, but it had to take the lake's repinings, while the real culprit went free and unreproached. Purple Springs
He also wryly acknowledges that he risks sounding like a grumpy old man pining for an overly-romanticised past.
They have been a partnership for more than 30 years but Salt the tortoise is pining without her buddy Pepper.
They're hungry, in need of a good scrub and pining for their luxury lifestyles. The Sun
From the heat and frenzy of my city kitchen, I'm pining for the woods, and will have to snatch some time out to fill a basket or two of wild harvest.
The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
Haley lets out a small sigh, ‘What you just described would be mooning or pining, not to mention pathetic.’
A fatal disease - tuberculosis, also called consumption - provided a favorite metaphor to represent the destructiveness of feverish emotions, such as pining or amorousness.
Such a man, after long wavering, and losing probable happiness in the terror of possible disappointment, will either die an old batchelor, with endless repinings at his own lingering fastidiousness, or else marry just at the eve of confinement for life, from a fit of the gout. Camilla
Think of the beauty of this: I get home after a long day at work, open my mailbox and find the new release I've been pining to watch!
There's also pining over garments that suit a more mature outlook, a visit to Juliette Binoche's "facialist", and snaps of Parisian senior citizen hipsters. Internet picks of the week
She certainly hasn't been pining while you were away!
Emily Dickinson in this constellation is forever the lovelorn spinster, pining away in her father's mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Mass. Lance Mannion:
She certainly hasn't been pining while you were away!
This whole e-mail stink is about some random 3L opining, a priori, from her Harvard armchair about actual science. The Volokh Conspiracy » 4. On a Bus in Kiev
Rose had not allowed herself one word of fret or of repining; but on three different nights during that first week, she had got out of bed and wandered about the house, till Anna, hearing the quiet, stuffless sounds of bare feet, had come out, and leading the girl into the still warm kitchen, had comforted her. Good Old Anna
His children, who are pining for their father, are being cared for by relatives and told that their father is away working hard to raise case to take them to Disneyland Paris.
The Fianna Fáil man has welcomed the launch of Farm Safety Week campaign by the Health and Safety Authority, opining that there is a huge need to highlight needless deaths and injuries on farms.
The trio said their success is great - but has left them pining for home. The Sun
Sgt Hester then spoke briefly about the huge success of the No Name Club in the South Mayo capital, opining that the new hosts and hostesses had a difficult act to follow.
The trio said their success is great - but has left them pining for home. The Sun
Within the genre of romantic comedy, so many female leads spend entire films longing and pining for the ‘right one’.
The new owner is simply told that the bird, far from being dead, is "resting," "stunned," "prefers kipping on its back," and -- my favorite -- "pining for the fjords. David Coates: Washington Woes and the Problem of the Parrot
No murmurs escape from one who seems to have sustained unrepiningly the sorrows which reach the heart most truly; the wreck of fortune, not for ourselves, but for our children, and the terrors of suspense. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
There are plenty of little people scattered about the corners of Ruisdael's vistas, but they are never Diana chasing Actaeon, or Echo pining for Narcissus, as they usually are in 17th-century landscapes.
Sir Hugh could now repair the omissions of his youth; but he was willing to console his want of knowledge, and sooth his mortifications; and while he grieved for his bodily infirmities, and pitied his mental repinings, he considered his idea as not illaudable, though injudicious, and in favour of its blamelessness, forgave its absurdity. Camilla
Think of me, back in the day, one little reader opining yea or nay. Times, Sunday Times
Once this happens, our bodies will no longer crave toxins and my pining for chicken popcorn will fade.
Surely the Phantom suffered through worse all those hours pining after that lovely chorus girl.
She is being helped by Stacey, an American of indeterminate function, who is pining for Starbucks.
I'd been pining for an early night since Tuesday.
A woman pining away for her love, lost at sea, for over 30 years.
Among them are widows and widowers, heartfree spinsters and pining bachelors. The Bird Study Book
Over in Emmerdale,, poor old Alan Turner has been pining over lost love, Shelly.
C.P. Scott, Manchester Guardian editor from 1872 to 1929, will always be in journalism's pantheon for opining that ‘comment is free, but facts are sacred’.
Unless you count a minor moment where our kingpin bitch-slaps the husband of a girl he's pining for, we never see Pipe actually apply his power.
Minutes of routine meetings record officials opining that the red leaves of ornamental bushes will clash with the brick of a shopping center sign and instructing a housing developer to build more single-story homes on certain streets.
Mediocre guys having bevvies of amazing young women pining over them is pretty common. Matthew Yglesias » 1.05 Girls for Every Boy
Nor will you benefit from a foreign placement spent pining for home. Times, Sunday Times
Combined Schools would perhaps spend that day pining over a match they seemed to have had in the basket!
Investors have been clamoring for Chinese stocks like children pining for more dessert.

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