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
The older hands laughed at their pinings, derided their complaints, and swore that they would rather die and starve there, than return home with empty purses, to be the scorn and laughing-stock of all Hispaniola.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
I confess that I have no heart pinings for such nonconformists as Dr. Mary Walker or any other individual who believes that eccentricity, serving no purpose but to make one conspicuous, is interesting.
From A String of Amber Beads by Martha Everts Holden
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
Do not the dews of darkness steep All pinings of the day in sleep?
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume I. by Walter De la Mare
