Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.
Deep and aching desire for someone or something.
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Examples for "longing "
Examples for "longing "
1 But the Great War had also unleashed a longing for individual redemption.
2 Maggots did indeed appear-squirmingalong the veil, longing to reach the meat.
3 I feel the same way, but these years have normalised the longing .
4 Themes of physical strength, activism and longing emerge from a digressional text.
5 Another writer stresses the efficacy of longing no less strongly; speaking of
1 He seemed to be responding, with a hungriness that thrilled his wife.
2 From one it swells out into rounded fullness; from the other it gapes as in empty hungriness .
3 Oh, you'll die of hungriness , I expect.
4 Hungriness and sleepiness came just as regularly as if they had had nights and clocks both, to measure time by.
Ardent desire or craving.
1 My unsteady courage often gave place to yearnings for my native planet.
2 You have your own unique set of circumstances, desires, yearnings and dreams.
3 But he knows nothing of the heart of Bengal and its yearnings .
4 Those who did not back Corbyn need to abandon yearnings for yesteryear.
5 Nothing else can meet the deepest needs and yearnings of our time.
6 Nineteenth-century developers in Liverpool created a Kensington, charming evidence of genteel yearnings .
7 We see now that the yearnings of divine love will be satisfied.
8 Your letter filled with useless yearnings of which I thought myself incapable.
9 She was conscious of yearnings for a more earnest life than this.
10 Her breast was stirred with confused yearnings , and every imaginable evil thought.
11 His songs were full of sighs and yearnings , languid lips and sheep's-eyes.
12 But I was alone with all my perverted yearnings for another girl.
13 She found places there-capacitiesfor loving - intense yearnings - which had remained hidden until now.
14 A father, sire, may for his son's good disregard his own yearnings .
15 The more widespread of the two reflects the yearnings of the poor.
16 Not a glimmering of what Art meant-ofits effort, and its yearnings !
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