pining
adjective
suffering with or expressing longing or yearning for someone or something.
pinings
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pluralof pining.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.
From US News ● Jan. 13, 2014
One day—then comes the feast enchanting That shall all pinings well requite.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
His whims ye must follow, His transports though fleet, His pinings too sweet Though often comes sorrow, The thousand delights The wounds of his darts Still charm all the hearts.
From The Imaginary Invalid by Charles Heron Wall
I've seen your sighings and oglings, your pinings and sinkings.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
What hearts at war with themselves! what unceasing regrets! what pinings after the past! what long and beautiful years devoted to a moral grave, by a momentary rashness, an impulse, a disappointment!
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
