Wistfully in example sentence

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."

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Mumbling and people wandering wistfully.

Ashvini, his father, replies wistfully: "I wish I could've lived my life like you did."

In Paris, however, his blasphemies against French idols, he wrote wistfully, were "well received...people like to demolish all reputations, even legitimate, even justified.

Others, wistfully recalling a nation-state that never really existed, cling to national sovereignty as a reason to refuse further European integration.

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