“The Tree Who Longed to Come Inside.”
She longed to question him as to where his master was.
She said she longed for more consensus-oriented lawmakers and would vote for Mr.
Early in lockdown, I was in denial about a longed-for holiday in Italy next month.
She had longed to call a halt to it all.
"We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy."
He longed to show that love in some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry.
Here was concentrated, unabashed silliness that I longed to bottle and smuggle out in my purse.
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.
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
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- for an extended time or at a distant time
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- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
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- of relatively great height
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- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
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- for an extended distance
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- involving substantial risk
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- planning prudently for the future
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- good at remembering
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- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
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- having or being more than normal or necessary
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- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
Verb Forms
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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