longed in English

verb
1
have a strong wish or desire.
she longed for a little more excitement
synonyms:yearn forpine forache forhanker for/afterhunger forthirst foritch forbe eager forbe desperate forcravedream ofset one's heart onhave a yen forbe dying for
verb

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1. SARAH longed to bear children.

2. He longed for Pat to phone.

3. I longed to kindle one!

4. I longed for my children tome home.

5. She longed for peace and solitude.Sentencedict

6. Sam longed for the oblivion of sleep.

7. She longed to capture the image on film.

8. How one longed to uproot those walls.

9. She longed to turn and walk away.

10. A swift change is longed for, but unlikely.

11. Searching for Roots —An Adoptee Longed to Know

12. The twilight I longed for makes me tremble.

13. She longed to return to her native land.

14. He longed to be reunited with his bereaved family.

15. He longed desperately to be back at home.

16. She longed to be freed of her responsibilities.

17. He longed for the winter to be over.

18. She longed for the sanctuary of her own home.

19. He was a romantic at heart and longed for adventure.

20. No wonder He longed for the prayerful solitude of mountaintops!

21. He longed to put a little affection into his epistle.

22. They longed for deliverance from their spiritually captive state.

23. ELIJAH longed to be alone with his heavenly Father.

24. She longed to break out of the daily routine.

25. Joseph, himself, longed to know which church he should join.

26. How he must have longed for relief! —Genesis 7:6.

27. I longed for help, and I often prayed to God.

28. They longed to break free from the yoke of Communism.

29. 16 Was perversity, that I longed to talk to him?

30. She longed for the chance to speak to him in private.

31. Now she longed for a set of white frilly curtains.

32. 6 He longed to land her a good smack in the face.

33. Babur longed to be a great poet, writing Admiringly of the

34. The apostle Paul keenly longed for the reward of eternal life.

35. 2) Defeated, Ed gazed impotently at the beer he longed to Bumbaste

36. Indeed, Loida said that for 18 years she had longed to communicate.

37. She longed for a sympathetic person to whom she could unburden herself.

38. She was tired of moving around and longed for a more settled existence.

39. The people were weary of war and bloodshed and longed for peace.

40. He had prayed often and longed to know the truth of the gospel.

41. 4 They longed to escape from the rat race and move to the countryside.

42. Some longed for a Messiah who would free them from the hated yoke of Rome.

43. He was tired of the merry-go-round of romance and longed to settle down.

44. And I longed to leave the kitchen now for the openness of the front compound.

45. 6 The fruit of the tree suddenly became something to be longed for, something irresistible!

46. Such stories fired the imagination of inventors and philosophers who longed to achieve true flight.

47. 25 She longed to break in on their conversation but didn't want to appear rude.

48. Solo longed to learn more about his parents, but Shrike kept all information from him.

49. 29 Happiness is not a situation to be longed for, or a convergence of lucky happenstance.

50. She longed for the silly woman to stop prattling and to blow out the candle.