How to Use pine for in a Sentence

pine for

phrasal verb

• My American friend was aware of this love-gap and felt as if my time was better spent pining for love rather than enjoying the romantic experience of solitude.
  — Chanté Joseph, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2024
• Your friend who pines for the glory days of Rush is super into them.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
• While the Wildcats opened the season with a 44-14 win over Ball State, coaches and players still pined for more.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 4 Sep. 2023
• Makes one pine for the days of a truly robust media landscape.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Yet out of all the indictments thus far, Smith’s latest may be the one Trump’s critics have been pining for the most.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• And, although still just 28, pines for a younger version of his physical self.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Mia starts dreaming about Hawthorne, pining for him, even sleeping on his grave.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• With a net worth of $3.5 billion as a Hyatt Hotel heir, Pritzker is not pining for much.
  — John O'Connor, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2023
• The story follows Mary, a successful surgeon, as the men in her life pine for her and vie to win her affection.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 15 July 2023
• Yet, there is one thing that Manilow has always pined for and now inspires some irrational fears: a Broadway show.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• And regions that have yet to obtain station stops for their localities are pining for a piece of the action.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• This slick, pulsating new song from Cameron and the track’s official DJ, Marshmello, sees the star pining for the love of the one person who’s not giving it to her.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2023
• Both desire and heartache pulsate throughout the song, as Flowers, 42, is nearly spinning out, still pining for a former lover who’s moved on.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• Since then, the football team left town and has been a virtually continuous dumpster fire, yet all anyone around here seems to pine for is the glory days of the R*$%@!*s.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Phillips said the events attracted many Biden backers who pined for an alternative.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Her father, who pined for a son and dressed Ms. Gilot in boys’ clothing, pushed her toward international law.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Both franchises were down and out, stockpiling NHL top draft picks rather than playoff wins and pining for better days.
  — Laine Higgins, wsj.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• After riding the pine for most of the game, the player must quickly get loose and face a relief pitcher, who is often throwing upwards of 100 mph with a nasty breaking ball.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• Stands of Mature Pine Likewise, turkeys will often roost in mature pines for shelter.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2023
• Kouyate has many clients who are languishing in the shelters, running out of money, running out of patience, and pining for home.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
• One pines for the days when wickedness took the plump and tangible form of a man named Goldfinger, whose only digital ambition was to get his fingers on gold.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• Despite the years Pen has spent pining for Colin, the show pairs them off without much fuss to make way for the real relationship conflict between Pen and Eloise.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 16 May 2024
• The Warriors are a veteran team trying to hold onto the last vestiges of dominance—and perhaps pining for grudges that expired a half-decade ago.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• And some zoos collect pines for use in animal enrichment programs.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
• For the Paralympic athletes, at least one runner on Thursday pined for a para-specific competition at the state meet.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 May 2024
• Meanwhile, an adoring fan base pines for the product the men made together, even as the two remain estranged—victims, perhaps, of their own runaway success.
  — Indrani Sen, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Unlike the Steiner family, who used trees from the surrounding forest for their projects, the interior bridge was made from trees bought from a mill near Sandy and the pine for the bridge railings came from Eastern Oregon.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 23 June 2023
• State legislators pining for single-payer ought to take a look at the disasters unfolding in Canada and Britain.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• If you’re left pining for an extra helping, the 2010 deluxe edition of Breakfast in America includes additional tracks from this tour.
  — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Mariah remix is making — stamps it to an era of millennials and Gen X–ers pining for bygone culture, while zoomers discover and distort their parents’ favorites.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024