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146 examples of Longed in a sentence

Jim Ewing fell to earth and was badly broken, but his eyes turned skyward, where he always longed to return.
He was an underearner, longed to be financially rescued, and he numbed out the pain with alcohol.
However, I longed to share my life with someone.
But she longed to be back in Poland.
They had waited their whole lives for this moment, just as their medieval predecessors had longed for the end of the world, and just as my grandmother waited for the Oprah Winfrey Show to come on Channel 8 every day at 4 o'clock.
I longed to access and scrutinize this energetic light and figure out the astrophysical cause.
And it sounds so strange to me now, but at 22, I longed to have dramatic experiences, and in that moment, I was irrational and furious and devastated, and weirdly enough, I thought that this somehow legitimized the feelings I had for the guy who had just left me.
When I saw my mother's first signature on her bidi-rolling wage book, when I felt the hot Delhi air against my face after a 50-hour train journey, when I finally felt free and let myself be, I saw a glimpse of that new world I longed for, a world where a girl like me is no longer a liability or a burden but a person of use, a person of value and a person of worthiness.
Because for hundreds of years, some of us have looked at the stars and longed to go.
I remember holding my three-month-old beautiful daughter whom I had just named Oma, which in my dialect means "truth and justice," as that was what I had longed so much for all this time.
Because I had finally gotten the freedom that I so longed for.
They longed to share their views.
And even as the disease progressed significantly and I needed leg braces and a walker to get around, I still longed for adventure.
I think both Diane Lane and Richard Gere were perfect for these two characters and they have good chemistry however they just did not develop a long enough storyline for us to see how they longed for each other.
When I have watched this show I have longed for "District Hill Street" and "NYPD Blue".
Paul says he eventually cried, but not for Linda, his wife, but for the unknown girl he had watched from a distance so many years ago..and longed for..and loved.
Think of Princess Diana and how she longed for privacy.
I pleaded desperately, frenziedly for mercy (to whom this appeal was made, I don't know), and longed with burning desire for the soothing balm of Ozu Yasujiro.
I remember how, as a teenager, I longed to see Eddie's "Revenge of the Dead" (a.k.a.
This wonderful fun filled and sometimes heartbreaking film shows a young man who never expected, but longed to see, what was outside the confines of his lovely city of Athens, GA.
I only found the movie in English which took something special away from the film and have longed to find a copy of it in Spanish.
He has approached this "exploring the unknown" in several films including "The Funhouse", "Poltergeist", and of course, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Toolbox" really brings us back to the classic form of screen terror we have longed for since we traveled to "Salem's Lot", which was also masterfully done by Hooper.
I longed for a local roller rink near me, but there was Nothing, only Ice rinks.
I've never wanted to sleep at the cinema before, but this time I actually longed to close my eyes and take a nap (I didn't, though).
If you had a childhood you longed to escape from, see it, too.
We youngsters longed for more comedies with him after having seen him in the outrageous (is it still seen this way today?)
I have always dined at the table of a longed for good nuclear apocalypse show and have always gone away from the table hungry.
I remembered Mr. Sewell vaguely from "Hamlet," and have longed to see Mr. Fiennes in a film since "Shakespeare in Love," but never remember seeing Ms. Potter in anything, and I am sure that I never seen Mr. Hollander before.
Blending both well-timed comedy and the "human drama" which Sullivan himself so longed for in the libretti of his partner, the film takes us through the majority of the duo's career.
I have longed to see this series again and think 26 years is too long to have to wait ... the series now belongs to that era of classic video-taped programmes that we no longer see.
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