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Wistfully in sentence

19 examples of Wistfully in a 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."
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.
In India, businessmen look wistfully at China and wish their leaders could act just as boldly and decisively – that is, more autocratically – to address the country’s reform challenges.
The MAFF is wistfully abandoning the cherished goal of food autarky.
As one finance minister told me rather wistfully, when I asked him what had actually been delivered on climate change: “Words,” he said, "just words.”
Am I merely a veteran wistfully reminiscing about the old days of struggle?
During the 1930s, the 1920s were looked upon wistfully, but also as a time of fakery and cheating.
We in the media might soon look back wistfully at Trump, who, for all his grating flaws, was the most entertaining leader of the twenty-first century.
Huckleberry viewed it wistfully.
And then it was discomforting to see Huck eying Joe's preparations so wistfully, and keeping up such an ominous silence.
"Would you, Tom?" said Aunt Polly, her face lighting wistfully.
Presently she gave over skylarking, and moved irresolutely about, sighing once or twice and glancing furtively and wistfully toward Tom.
He looked wistfully at me, and I thought I guessed at what he meant, that is to say, that he had no money; but I was mistaken, his meaning was another way.
'You don't think it would be of any use my waiting for him?' said the stranger, looking wistfully into the office.
He forced her to turn her face to him, and gazed wistfully into her eyes for a moment.
Fibby cocked one ear wistfully toward the flames, but held on through the gathering shadows, and Tarvin smelt the acrid juice of bruised camel's-thorn beneath his horse's hoofs.