wistfully in English

adverb

in a wistful manner, longingly, yearningly

Use "wistfully" in a sentence

1. And he eyed the other wistfully .

2. Thompson must have read the explosive Nixon transcripts wistfully.

3. He looked wistfully on the velvet carpet.

4. He was back under the tree, smiling wistfully.

5. " If only I had known you then, " he said wistfully.

6. "I wish I had a little brother," said Daphne wistfully.

7. 'That's the house where I was born,' she said wistfully.

8. "I would love to go back to Venice, " he said wistfully.

9. Wistfully, I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well.

10. Late last year Ford family members were talking wistfully of taking the company private.

11. He smiles, wistfully: " Lisa Hannigan not wanting to talk to me anymore "

12. Two lovers embrace on the Nydegg Bridge , gaze wistfully into the river below.

13. Top synonyms for Contemplatively (other words for Contemplatively) are pensively, grimly and wistfully.

14. 1980, Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: I gazed wistfully at the pretty Coeds

15. An 18- year- old boy who uses texting for almost everything says to me wistfully,

16. But he usually mentioned Italy when speaking wistfully of a new start across the pond.

17. His sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel.

18. I might even have griped about my existence with the Gorengs and thought wistfully of alternatives.

19. Meanwhile, skywatchers in the northern U.S. or Canada sometimes say wistfully, that they've never seen it.

20. He could see her in his rear mirror, standing on the pavement looking wistfully after him.

21. The new Lilli was the girl left behind, waiting wistfully for her soldier to return safely.

22. But how marvellous, Robbie thought wistfully, to be in a relationship where your lover was all things to you.

23. Prince William, chewed his lip anxiously while eight-year-old Harry stared wistfully ahead, dreaming of Christmases past.

24. 25 It would have been enormous fun, she thought wistfully, to help work Water Gypsy up and down the canal system.

25. 20 Jaq noted how wistfully Grimm regarded what he rated as gourmet ambrosia disappearing into the monster's maw remorselessly.

26. It would have been enormous fun, she thought wistfully, to help work Water Gypsy up and down the canal system.

27. Thirty years after the death of Josip Broz Tito, there are still some Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and others who describe themselves, rather wistfully, as "Yugo-nostalgics".

28. The secular talk of the worldly-minded was galling to me, and I would look wistfully to the day when my own beloved companions would come.

29. An 18-year-old boy who uses texting for almost everything says to me wistfully, "Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation."

30. ‘The Contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.’ ‘The core concern of liberalism is the happiness and Contentment of individual human beings.’ ‘He's too astute to give away his position, but he wears an air of Contentment as comfortably as …

31. Not that they were before shut, or closed up, but what before held them was removed, and what hindered their sight and knowledge was taken away; and perhaps these actions of his taking the bread, and blessing, and breaking, and giving it to them, might put them in mind of him, and cause them to look wistfully at him, when, what Beclouded their

32. The core concern of liberalism is the happiness and Contentment of individual human beings.: And they increasingly look to their work as their main source of satisfaction and Contentment.: The Contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.: Words are not always the only or even the best way to convey feelings of joy, sadness, fear, Contentment, anger, and