Sentence examples for longed from high-quality English sources.

Use longed in a sentence.

  • I enjoy a filet mignon as much as the next person, but I longed to return to Jamie's for a bowl of pasta.

  • She was a longed-for child – the couple had been trying to conceive since they married seven years previously.

  • In its role as an emblem of longed-for reconciliation, the bridge, in many ways, has never been more important.

  • He longed to let himself drift—whether toward disaster or toward the miraculous salvation that he still hoped for.

  • They give childless couples the family they have longed for, but what is it like for the women who carry someone else's child for money?

  • Toshihiko Aizawa, Aishima’s founder and chief executive, said he wanted to open the restaurant to respond to requests from residents who longed for a meal out.

  • Every book I read in my youth spoke to my sexuality, because I was straight: Darcy; Heathcliff; the fondue orgy in Asterix in Switzerland – I longed for them all.

  • Harleston longed to paint landscapes at Magnolia but was denied permission, because, although the gardens had been open to the public since 1870, they were closed to blacks.

longed sentence examples

  • So this morning, when the autumnal chill impelled me to draw my bare legs closer to my chest and pull an extra blanket around my shoulders, I almost — almost — longed for summer.

  • Though he longed for success, and worked hard to achieve it, he seems to have enjoyed setting himself problems and solving them, leaving the developments and refinements to others.

  • How he longed for the rhythm of campaigning, riding fast in foggy woods, riding slow eating chickpeas, accurate killing, little strange herbs of the frontier for his collection, little new bitter smells.

  • But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is alone with her, so Rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so.

longed


  • verb emotion

    - desire strongly or persistently


  • adv all

    - for an extended time or at a distant time


  • adj all

    - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified


  • adj all

    - of relatively great height


  • adj all

    - primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified


  • adv all

    - for an extended distance


  • adj all

    - involving substantial risk


  • adj all

    - planning prudently for the future


  • adj all

    - good at remembering


  • adj all

    - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices


  • adj all

    - having or being more than normal or necessary


  • adj all

    - (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration


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On this page, there are 20 sentence examples for longed. They are all from high-quality sources and constantly processed by lengusa's machine learning routines.

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  • 5 sentence examples for longed from The New Yorker
  • 1 sentence examples for longed from GutenbergBooks - Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  • 4 sentence examples for longed from New York Times
  • 3 sentence examples for longed from Independent
  • 1 sentence examples for longed from Business Insider
  • 2 sentence examples for longed from GutenbergBooks - War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  • 2 sentence examples for longed from The Guardian
  • 1 sentence examples for longed from BBC
  • 1 sentence examples for longed from The Economist
    There are 11 relevant lexical connections:
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is hanker
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is yearn
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is farseeing
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is farsighted
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is longsighted
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is foresightful
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is foresighted
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is prospicient
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is retentive
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is tenacious
  • • Relevant word or phrase for longed is recollective