Example Sentences

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Until someone stamps their authority on proceedings, tennis will pine for Queen Serena’s return.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2017

Perhaps treating a speech like it is an actual human is a little daffy, but studies show there is literally no human on the planet who will pine for the old way. 

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even though he may obtain subsistence in the forest, he will pine and die when he finds himself deserted by his friends.”

From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat

If the calf is diseased, or if he refuses to eat, he will pine away and die; and so with us.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey