longs

British  

/ lɒŋz /

plural noun

1. full-length trousers

2. long-dated gilt-edged securities

3. finance unsold securities or commodities held in anticipation of rising prices

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Example Sentences

Reduced to lugging boxes in a retail store, he longs to get back into the paper game he thought he played so successfully for 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal

Staring out the window of her room at the senior care facility in Glendale, Cathirell , 85, longs to be back in her neighborhood where family and friends were never far away.

From Los Angeles Times

The vampire Justine longs for mortality—for the prospect of transformation, of stepping into the unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal

But even while Charlie longs to recross the wine dark sea to America, he ought to take solace in Homer’s words: “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”

From The Wall Street Journal

As Baraa toils on, he longs for a return to a normal life with prospects of more profitable employment.

From BBC