longings
- plural of longing.
Example Sentences
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His voice - bruised, buttery and intimate - has been an inescapable undercurrent of Bollywood, narrating heartbreaks, longings and reconciliations for millions for more than a decade.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
One of our most fundamental longings as social beings is to belong, especially to a community.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2024
Can he deny his flesh and blood longings and his yearning for relief from an enduring sorrow?
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2024
She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
