longing|longings in English

noun

[long·ing || 'lɔŋɪŋ /'lɒŋ-]

yearning, desire, wish, craving

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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. A foreigner’s longing for peace

5. People are longing for peace.

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

7. I'm longing to meet her.

8. We are longing to see you.

9. I'm longing for news of him.

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

11. They're so longing to see you.

12. His voice was husky with longing .

13. He felt a longing for the familiar.

14. His heart burned with longing for revenge.

15. Contentment is not a new longing

16. I'm longing to see you again.

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

18. In time, our longing for it will grow.

19. Mother's longing for her son to come home.

20. She had a desperate longing to go back.

21. To death she looked with inexpressible longing.

22. The children are longing for the holidays.

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

24. He quickened his pace , longing to be home.

25. Imelda spoke of her longing to return home.