How to Use longing in a Sentence

longing

noun

• She cast a look of longing at the shop window.
• They looked with longing toward freedom.
• She never told anyone about her secret longings.
• The work of Andrés Hernández deals, perhaps above all else, in the act of longing.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
• Bassett channels the longing through the aching lyrics about seeing his former lover’s lookalike in public.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2022
• The records are these time capsules of desire, longing, excitement, fury and all of the things that go into making a record.
  — Cam Lindsay, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2022
• My father, who wore a spacesuit slashed by longing, spinning towards the vast desolate.
  — Warsan Shire, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022
• Child laughter and bird chirps combat the spiritual longing that runs throughout.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 July 2024
• The nuance, the pain, and the longing is so encapsulated in her performance.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• Dando’s songs are saturated with a kind of directionless longing—a troubling, inescapable sense that there’s more out there for him.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• This longing for connection, the desire to physically touch someone has become a layer in the whole story.
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• And yet there is a kind of compromised glamour in the painting, the figure limned in light filtering in through the window, as if ambered in memory by longing.
  — Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
• But despite having lived in Manhattan for 20-plus years, there are things about the Valley that make Wachs’ voice fill with longing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2022
• MoBo had plenty of love songs — most dealt with unrequited love, pining after someone and the pains of being rejected or longing from a distance.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 14 Feb. 2022
• Driven by a longing for financial independence and dreams of starting their own businesses, women brace the obstacles and use these gigs as a starting point.
  — Grace Natabaalo, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022
• New Orleans was prepared for this moment – not just with a longing for deep belly laughs together in the streets, but with a parallel determination to battle the pandemic.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2022
• That longing to know more led to a road trip in the summer of 2019.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• The key shift here is to a tone laden with longing, even regret.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• Eid now is no longer a day of laughter, but a day of tears and longing.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Most of the tunes explored loss, longing and what can happen when the heart goes astray.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2022
• The same home movies of Christmas morning, the same longing glances across the bar, the same nostalgia, the same heartache.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Lewis tells stories through metaphor and the language of longing.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• The smell of the cigarette gave Frances a sudden longing.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• If the erotic thrillers of the past explored the dangers of lust, Park Chan-wook explores the risks of longing.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
• From a young age, Spears felt dual longings to both hide and be seen.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
• What makes malls the object of both longing and disdain?
  — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
• So’s work defines a life of longing — and will leave you longing for more.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• His heart was displayed in a glass bottle in his chest for all to see the many shards of his heart’s longing’s song.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• When the other set of grandparents lives near the grandkids, the longing can feel worse.
  — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2022
• But for now, listen to the longing and see what’s underneath.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024