longed for|long for in English

yearned for, craved, desired

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1. He longed for Pat to phone.

2. I longed for my children tome home.

3. She longed for peace and solitude.Sentencedict

4. Sam longed for the oblivion of sleep.

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

6. Searching for Roots —An Adoptee Longed to Know

7. The twilight I longed for makes me tremble.

8. He longed for the winter to be over.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

22. 8 Have you longed for victory over sin, for sanctification, holiness, Christlikeness, purity, and perfection of character?

23. The Prime Minister recalled that for forty years, our ex-servicemen longed for ‘One Rank, One Pension’.

24. As a hind, or female deer, in a dry region longs for water, the Levite longed for Jehovah.

25. 6 The fruit of the tree suddenly became something to be longed for, something irresistible!