Example Sentences

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Now that a virus has stopped the show, I am pining for the songs that used to.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2020

"Will you sign a receipt for the three thousand five hundred livres, which I am pining to hand over to you, my friend, and I will tell you?"

From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I would die of joy as rapidly as I am pining away with suspense now, I am afraid!

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan

You must not think I am pining for home.

From Stephen Grattan's Faith A Canadian Story by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

Ah! friend, I am pining away with grief.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes