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Examples of longing in a Sentence
They looked with longing toward freedom.
She cast a look of longing at the shop window.
She never told anyone about her secret longings.
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These sort of decisions seem very obvious on paper, safely removed from the hot fluctuation of your feelings, but in the moment you may be overwhelmed with a whole-body sense of longing to blow off best judgment and behave recklessly.
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 5 July 2024
At this point in the film, their connection hasn’t fully been revealed — that comes later via flashback — but even now, Koo Kyo-Hwan and Song Kang adeptly convey so much with just the occasional glance and flicker of longing across their faces.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 4 July 2024
That’s unjustifiable celebrity worship considering Costner’s film hasn’t a fraction of the vision and epic longing in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate.
—Armond White, National Review, 3 July 2024
Over the past couple of years, a cohort of young adults appear to have increasingly turned to flip phones as a result of a feeling of longing for the past and a need to make a digital detox— notes Lecturer Omah H. Fares for The Conversation.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 5 July 2024
At this point in the film, their connection hasn’t fully been revealed — that comes later via flashback — but even now, Koo Kyo-Hwan and Song Kang adeptly convey so much with just the occasional glance and flicker of longing across their faces.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 4 July 2024
That’s unjustifiable celebrity worship considering Costner’s film hasn’t a fraction of the vision and epic longing in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate.
—Armond White, National Review, 3 July 2024
Over the past couple of years, a cohort of young adults appear to have increasingly turned to flip phones as a result of a feeling of longing for the past and a need to make a digital detox— notes Lecturer Omah H. Fares for The Conversation.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
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“Longing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longing. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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