How To Use Wistfully In A Sentence
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He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs.
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Then the old man said wistfully, "Wud ye no 'like to see where I was born mesel?
Why Paint in Wartime?
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From where I sit on the hallway window ledge, I wistfully watch Nikolai Gromov putting on his jacket and boots in the coatroom.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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You'll die in the middle of the ocean," Cosby crooned wistfully, "and it will wash out your underpants.
Former sailor Bill Cosby made an honorary CPO by the Navy -- a great crowd to test out new jokes
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I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
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On that occasion, a lady, both wistfully and bibulously, asks: ‘What I say is, where did we all take the wrong turn?’
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How did your own experience inform the stories that focus on Emma, the little girl in "The Summer Kitchen," who successfully overcomes cancer but wistfully idealizes her life before cancer?
A conversation with Alice Hoffman
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The last series will probably end with Anakin loosing his temper a little, realizing that he * might possibly* end up in a bad way, and the troop looking wistfully into space before they launch for the beginning of ROTS.
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'Do you mean,' she said, looking up at him rather wistfully now, 'that I am _always_ what you call extravagant?'
The Gold of Chickaree
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My young tillicum had finished his tradition, and his great, solemn eyes regarded me half-wistfully.
Legends of Vancouver
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She wished wistfully for a warm summer on a Californian beach where her skin burned as easily as toast and time seemed to stand still.
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Rusty Rhea sighs wistfully as he talks about the beauty and peace of standing amid a grove of deep green hemlocks in Appalachia, some of them up to 160 feet tall and more than 500 years old.
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Two lovers embrace on the Nydegg Bridge , gaze wistfully into the river below.
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The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fire side.
Tales of a Traveller
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On the odd occasion that he's had a few to drink, I think he brings out the red suit and talks wistfully about his sleigh.
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Later on, as she was making dinner, she paused mid-stir with the wooden spatula deep into the Quorn mince and looked wistfully skywards.
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Enough with staring wistfully at those better tressed than you.
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It stands in that wistfully earnest doggy way that you see them doing as they wait on the footpath outside the fish and chip shop.
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As Nora listened to him laugh and shout with the others, she set her elbow on the table, resting her head upon it, and sighed wistfully.
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This interest in what Prince Charles often wistfully referred to as “time-honored country pursuits” did not extend to hunting, however—and definitely not to foxhunting.
William and Kate
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There are about a million calories in that green stuff," she said wistfully of the tapenade.
EVERY SECRET THING
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She added nothing, except with her eyes, which went wistfully, searchingly, beggingly, into his; till a film of tears gathered, and the book fell, and her arms went round him again and her face was hid.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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South African must have looked wistfully at the young men next to him still exploring their potential with the confidence of youth and matching white trousers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He conjured her face before his eyes, and smiled wistfully.
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The stupa was the same one pictured in his guide book, the same one he had thought of wistfully when he was on the train, and sexual inclinations had not been the entirety of his yearnings there-at least so he wanted to believe.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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It represented a parroquet intensely crimson, on a background uniformly emerald; and the eyes of the melancholy lover dwelt wistfully upon the snowy hands selecting the different colors from a tortoise-shell work-box filled with spools of silk.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
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At the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve, Free State zoologist and black wildebeest expert Savvas Vrahimis wistfully surveys a panorama of wildlife: some 200 blesbok, a herd of springbok and 150 black wildebeest.
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‘Mother’ dispels the pall with a burst of wistfully playful pop, while ‘For Sheriff Allison’ trades in affected age for unstrained, deceptively simple folk.
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The secular talk of the worldly-minded was galling to me, and I would look wistfully to the day when my own beloved companions would come.
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What film, even before that killjoy schoolmarm Joseph Breen brought his Squaresville strictness to the Production Code in 1934, has ever presented the potentially salacious scenario of three-way love in such a wistfully complicated way?
Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living
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As I sat there, wistfully watching the kids run round me, I scattered some cheesy puffs and cashew nuts for pigeons which descended cooing and flapping to peck among the grit.
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Passing down the steep cobbled pathway, Carr's Lane, we emerge into Skeldergate, the haunt, as of old, of wharfingers and watermen, and we wistfully wonder in which house Robinson Crusoe, mariner, was born.
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Yet for all Mann's show of creative muscle, Luck remains very much a David Milch show, from the grubby poetry of the dialogue "You don't know how your daddy died, what they did to him," Nolte mutters wistfully to his horse early on to the roughened beauty of the setting.
After John From Cincinatti, David Milch spies a change in his Luck
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Rabinyan presents us with a world in which Persian odalisques lie wistfully, like tantalising fruit, where a certain lyricism pervades the air.
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She thought wistfully of the elegant ball gown that had been made just for tonight.
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But he usually mentioned Italy when speaking wistfully of a new start across the pond.
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Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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The consequence, as malariologist Lewis Hackett 1884-1962 wistfully wrote in the 1930s, is that malaria is so moulded and altered by local conditions that it becomes a thousand different diseases and epidemiological puzzles.
Scourge of Humankind
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Prince William, 10, chewed his lip anxiously while eight-year-old Harry stared wistfully ahead, dreaming of Christmases past.
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-- Emily Flynn VencatCopenhagen: Madeleines MadteaterThe "madeleine" comes from the little cake Marcel Proust wistfully described in "Remembrance of Things Past.
The Good Life
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No matter how wistfully we may long for the fountain of youth, the fact is that Laws of Thermodynamics are irrefutable.
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The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.
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He speaks wistfully of the hard-wearing fabrics of yesteryear - linsey-woolsey and gabardine.
Times, Sunday Times
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His low voice muttered wistfully looking further down the path and seeing the wall that encased the palace like a boa and it's prey.
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'That's the house where I was born,' she said wistfully.
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She glanced wistfully at the picture of Amber on the mantelpiece.
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He smiled wistfully and we got up leaving money and a tip on the table.
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Also looking wistfully at the three library books I must return tomorrow; I've had them for six weeks, but have scarce made a dent in them, such is my perdition.
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The drum machine offbeats are still present, but instead of snarky basslines and slow grinds, the song features a wistfully high organ stomp, and shifting tempos throughout.
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There's something wistfully pinheaded about deliberative democracy - it sounds a lot like law school.
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It might have been because I was gazing wistfully at him as he strode in our direction.
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I just wish to hell one of the bennies was a salary, she thought wistfully.
Children Of The Night
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The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside.
Tales of a Traveller
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‘I noticed that I'm being asked more and more to go to homages for my dear friends, who are now departed,’ she says wistfully.
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Still, he speculated wistfully that his newfound cheerfulness was not his authentic self, which he described as brooding and creative.
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I used my time back on campus to catch up with my old lecturers (those who still had jobs) and to walk wistfully around my old haunts.
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There's something wistfully pinheaded about deliberative democracy - it sounds a lot like law school.
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Ay, but such things as that be alonely for folk as can pay for 'em, I reckon," said Kate, looking wistfully, first at the blue ear-rings, and then at the blessed relic.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
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Two lovers embrace on the Nydegg Bridge , gaze wistfully into the river below.
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He'd wistfully recalled the time when he'd felt brotherly love for him.
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I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
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his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel
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Wistfully, William Wordsworth wrote: en and everyone understood what the poet meant.
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An oversized gnome, he looms over garden ponds, stares wistfully up at bedroom windows.
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He speaks wistfully of the hard-wearing fabrics of yesteryear - linsey-woolsey and gabardine.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
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Gilmour recalls wistfully glancing at the hotel spa pool upon retiring.
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Bernie fingered a sable goatee wistfully, then turned back to the budget beards.
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Even so, she had never stopped wistfully daydreaming about what could have been, of the life she could have lived on Lothos.
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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