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How to use longed for in a sentence

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But, for the modern Episcopalian, the country parson is probably an ideal figure, remote and more longed for than experienced.
But her determination has won through and while Grace will sadly never meet her father, Mrs Scott has the baby she longed for.
As the tiny girl's condition worsened, the Proctors longed for a donor to help give their daughter a fresh chance.
Ever longed for that in-between meals treat, but don't want to ruin a healthy appetite for punk rock?
Her blue jeans were beginning to grow damp and she longed for the feel of dry clothes and a warm blanket.
Johnny, wishing to relieve the ache in his feet, longed for the beautiful palfrey that had once been his to ride whenever he wished.
Oh how I longed for a platform indicator that actually told you when the next train was due, not just where it was going.
How he longed for the summer when they would both jet off to Italy for their special times together.
I've always longed for a sweet and affectionate, yet unbelievably cool, nickname.
It was not much more than a shack but soon they were joined by local women who had longed for the day when a convent would be opened.
I longed for a digital system that would hold the information from the letters and leave paper and dust behind.
I longed for my parents to hire a horse-drawn cab instead of a taxi but that did not happen.
They do not understand how much I long for it, how I have longed for it ever since I was a girl.
She laughs and says she has longed for the ring for a great time and wished to take it.
Maria longed for a larger, less isolated life that included people and domesticated animals, fat curly terriers or blue-eyed huskies.
But its producers are banking on the Chardonnay becoming the miracle longed for by the calorie-counting female wine-bar generation.
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.
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.
This fear is what keeps me from loving and receiving the love my heart has longed for since birth.
As soon as I stepped outside, I longed for the warmth of the convenience store again.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A thousand times I have longed for death, and wished, with an expressible ardor, for an end to what I suffered.
This day come home the instrument I have so long longed for, the parallelogram.
She longed for her mother, her friends in delft, and her quiet, cheerful home.
So Ben Aboo merely longed for the dawn of that day whereon he should need him no more.
Had she not gluttonously longed for more of the delectable marmalade made by the aged Sanchita?
Like the title of emeritus Professor, it is a tribute to be accepted, hardly to be longed for.
If she could not have what she longed for, she cared as little what became of her as she cared for Kafka's own fate.
I longed for a talk alone with kee, but I saw this could not occur very soon.
She longed for the man who suited her, and for the luxe that he could give her.
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.
Lincoln fretted under the tutorage of his father, and longed for the hour of his legal freedom.
Michael longed for Alan that together they might rag this worm who wriggled so obscenely into the secret places of a boy's mind.
Then there would be jewels such as she had longed for, a portrait by Chartran, she thought.
She, who so longed for a first place, seemed doomed to relegation to the ranks.
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.
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.
He longed for more, and the open gateway of the campong was a scarce needed invitation to pass to the wide world beyond.
That night he thumped his piano and longed for a pipe organ.
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