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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There’s arguably no one better placed to collaborate with VFX artists on a motion-capture performance than Serkis, who’s delivered innocence, cunning, cruelty, longing, and kindness in roles that run from Golum to Caesar to King Kong himself.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
Coming from a working-class family of Mexican immigrants and having worked many years in services jobs around the South Bay, the 36-year-old wanted his art to reflect that longing for a fair treatment of workers, especially immigrants.
—Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Touching on both, this memoir beautifully conveys the haunting presence of an estranged relative and the blurry line between longing and reluctance toward reconnection.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
King writes from the place just before and just beyond safety, where the longing is.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
Coming from a working-class family of Mexican immigrants and having worked many years in services jobs around the South Bay, the 36-year-old wanted his art to reflect that longing for a fair treatment of workers, especially immigrants.
—Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Touching on both, this memoir beautifully conveys the haunting presence of an estranged relative and the blurry line between longing and reluctance toward reconnection.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
King writes from the place just before and just beyond safety, where the longing is.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Longing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longing. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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