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How to use longed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word longed? Here are some examples.

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Even before the 1970s became fashionable again, I longed for shag-pile carpets, big collars, disco music and dolly birds.
This Dutch peasant girl longed to compete in a skating race, but her family could barely afford food and she only had wooden skates.
She watched the nimble sailors go about their business, singing shanties and being useful and she longed to join them.
Secretly Henrietta longed for a cat, a sweet gray tabby with little paws and doleful eyes who she could share her life long secrets with.
His skin was almost translucent, and for a moment I longed to reach up and touch it, but I quickly pushed the impulse aside.
He longed to know what nobility was exactly, so he could be sure that he had it.
Standing in front of him, he longed to slowly carve Jaegar to pieces and burn those pieces to bits.
How often I have longed to hear the hermit thrush, wood thrush and veery blend their ethereal voices together again!
This fear is what keeps me from loving and receiving the love my heart has longed for since birth.
Now awake and in charge of the day, he longed to be off, striding across the rich brown soil, out into the world, to explore.
He longed for a strong dictator and the security of the old religion, without the injustices of the old order.
But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced.
Her husband believes she is David's biggest fan and she has longed to meet him since she was a schoolgirl.
Oh how I longed for a platform indicator that actually told you when the next train was due, not just where it was going.
Seated on her bench beneath the wide, cloudless bay, she would never admit that she longed for the messy logistics of a man.
The contentment and happiness of love is always to be longed for or wistfully remembered.
He ached for her and longed to show her that he loved her and that he wouldn't leave her.
Her blue jeans were beginning to grow damp and she longed for the feel of dry clothes and a warm blanket.
I longed for mum to get this box of chocolates, but not because I had a palate advanced enough to enjoy bitter, dark langue-du-chat chocolates.
That brought some unscripted applause, a sense of relief that at last he had said what so many had longed to hear.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He longed to execrate aloud, to bring his fist down on something violently.
A thousand times I have longed for death, and wished, with an expressible ardor, for an end to what I suffered.
He longed at length for some one to whom he might unburthen his griefs.
Like the title of emeritus Professor, it is a tribute to be accepted, hardly to be longed for.
His slightly ruddied neck rose proudly and freely, but in the animation of his blue eye was blended a languishing expression, betokening him one that longed to.
Nothing could exceed the fervency with which he longed to meet a woman angel.
Then there would be jewels such as she had longed for, a portrait by Chartran, she thought.
She thought over it all day, and longed for the evening to come, when she might ask George about it.
He was oppressed with his weariness, and he longed for peace and ease of mind to come to him.
This was the vengeance for which she had longed, for which she had plotted, the vengeance she had at last achieved.
Lincoln fretted under the tutorage of his father, and longed for the hour of his legal freedom.
The morning-glory heard this, and she longed to let the little Wren see her face.
Michael longed for Alan that together they might rag this worm who wriggled so obscenely into the secret places of a boy's mind.
She, who so longed for a first place, seemed doomed to relegation to the ranks.
He longed to hear Hinde admitting that he had been mistaken in John's quality.
Where he wished to learn he was the aptest pupil, and from the days of the tobacco-field he had longed for this smooth lustre.
There was a musical contest in Sicily, and Arion longed to compete for the prize.
He longed for the day when he could don the brass-buttoned blue suit and wear the badged cap of an apprentice seaman.
It was of no use, sleep forsook his eyes, although he was so tired that he longed for its balminess.
The secret he longed to learn, the seal and confirmation of his hard-won faith, or empty, baulking nothingness?
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