How to Use homesick in a Sentence

homesick

adjective
  • He was homesick when he went to college.
  • She was homesick for her mother's cooking.
  • Many are alone and on their own for the first time, and some are deeply homesick.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • At this time last year, Beckham was homesick for New York and feeling out of place.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
  • By the end of June, Kajsa Fernström Nåtby was homesick.
    Mejs Hasan, WIRED, 12 July 2018
  • But, something tells us the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aren’t quite homesick just yet thanks to their swanky new American digs.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2020
  • Many trainees hosted by the volunteer families are on their own for the first time, and some are deeply homesick.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020
  • With the San Francisco mayor’s office up for grabs in less than a month, Scott may feel more than homesick.
    Marshall Kilduff, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • Wade, who attended high school and college in Tuscaloosa, was living in Louisville, Kentucky, at the time and was homesick.
    al, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Some are homesick for their Homeworld, but all of them have grown to love Earth and the imperfect people who inhabit it.
    Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Holstead, who grew up in College Station, Texas, came up with the concept while homesick in Montana.
    Grace Wilson, NOLA.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The business began in 2014 as a way to bring the homesick Juchs, who at the time was living in the Midwest and working as an illustrator, back to Maryland.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Harkening back to his early days in the league, Slater remembers feeling homesick.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • If your college student is getting a bit homesick, a care package filled with familiar items can help ease him over the hump.
    Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2016
  • Many see it as a betrayal of his core audience, who have come to count on his knotty R. & B. pop: Justin’s supposed to be love-stoned, not homesick.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But for this homesick Aussie, nothing really beats the jaffle.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 27 June 2017
  • But for this homesick Aussie, nothing really beats the jaffle.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 27 June 2017
  • Watching a Spielberg movie about a homesick alien while sitting in my Jeep Cherokee reminded me of that.
    Frank Pallotta For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Fellow homesick Venezuelans, some even driving up from San Jose, would line up outside of their house to pick up fried empanadas, fluffy bread stuffed with ham and arepas.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2022
  • Chief among them is feeling homesick, says Siyaeli (Elly) Moshi, manager of Dunia.
    Lavanya Sunkara, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2021
  • But soon Elisabeth Trump became homesick and wanted to come back to Germany.
    Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
  • There are kids who get homesick for friends, miss the chance to play a team sport or have to abandon extracurricular classes like music lessons.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The British actress did speak candidly about being homesick, though.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 14 May 2022
  • But privately many of the men admitted feeling homesick for their villages in Wardak, where Nifiz and his unit are from.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Research has shown that children who have more experience with time away from home may feel less homesick.
    Jessica Grose, New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • Filipinos abroad, many made more homesick because of the pandemic, turned to the platform, says Dorado.
    John Kang, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Prevent homesickness Sometimes a child will feel homesick while away at camp.
    Amy Bentley, Orange County Register, 27 Mar. 2017
  • After five days, 1,200 miles and God knows how many nuclear calories, my back was sore, my heart was homesick and my guts sizzled in misery.
    Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • In winter 1942, a homesick McCardell, like other Americans engaged in the war effort, was away from home for the first time at Christmas.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Feeling homesick during his rehab process, Robertson transferred to Georgia after the 2017 season and spent each of the last three years with the Bulldogs.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2021

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