longings in English

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1. Cara's nerves jangled with unfulfilled longings.

2. Yet, how often our longings go unfulfilled!

3. She had put aside her own longings.

4. Surely, there is nothing unusual about our own inchoate longings.

5. But men can come to terms with their suppressed longings.

6. Isabel trembled, half afraid, half shocked, at such shameless, hitherto unknown longings.

7. Synonyms for Appetences include appetites, drives, hungers, longings, cravings, penchants, yearnings, appetencies, desires and inclinations

8. Synonyms for Appetencies include appetite, cravings, desire, drives, hankerings, hunger, itches, joneses, letches and longings

9. 28 The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.

10. Their longings and their gratifications depend upon a level of oestrogen which is Counteracted …

11. The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand atiptoe to peep at the heaven.

12. There were his fine sensibilities, his fine feelings, his fine longings -- a sort of sublimated, idealised selfishness.

13. Her profound analyses of the fears and longings underlying parenthood have been invaluable to my thinking, and to my life.

14. Words that rhyme with Belongings include proceedings, recordings, workings, beginnings, earnings, furnishings, holdings, longings, mornings and openings

15. Successful ads employ clever words and pictures to appeal to the longings and fancies of the consumer.

16. Beyond these, again, was a small class whose natural home longings or home Bewailings or home pleadings led them to desert

17. It fulfills the deepest longings of the human soul—the natural yearning for endless association with beloved members of one’s family.

18. The pulseless air, with longings vague Befreight, Now quickens ’neath her gaze, now doth inflate: The still-poised midnight clouds in heaven pent

19. To the ancients, the appearance of a swan, with its effortless glide on the mirror of a lake and lovely, unfurling flight, signaled evanescence and evoked immortal longings.

20. In Creolized Aurality, Jérôme Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple—and often seemingly contradictory—cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality

21. The Left wing of the Party is the most ideological, hidebound to Maoism, driven in part by nostalgic longings and in part by a deep dissatisfaction with the current state of society.

22. It looks as if every generation is going to get an adaptation in another medium of Brideshead, so rich in nostalgia for the interwar spirit of Britain, so Arustle with swell clothes and the (largely) frustrated longings of both the homo- and heterosexual varieties

23. In Proust, Albertine's Anacoluthons, changing a "she" for an "I", is a way to mix lying and fiction in order to cover the character's lesbian liaisons, or to cloud the issue of the narrator's homosexual longings

24. ‘'tis a Brumal night’ More example sentences ‘Buck has a lot of changes ahead of him, suggested by the short poem ‘Old longings nomadic lap, / Chafing at custom's chain; / Again from its Brumal sleep / Wakens the ferine strain’ Chapter 1, pg.1.’

25. What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what Cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?