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How to use longingly in a sentence

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

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Anne, who loved the sea in all of its many moods, looked out at the storm-tossed harbour longingly.
She stares longingly at the thick black uniforms and hard helmets hanging up in the machine bay.
Over at the machinery section, farmers gazed longingly at some of the latest gigantic tractors.
The first factory workers in New England often wrote longingly about the countryside they had left behind.
He stared longingly outside, wishing to be out there among the people, taking a brisk walk in the city.
Do you find yourself gazing longingly and rather smuttily at Cheetara as she disports in her tight-fitting leotard?
Given my pecuniary circumstances, I did not really allow my eye to roam and gaze longingly at other more sporty or luxurious motor cars.
I remember looking longingly outside, where the birds twittered in the tall, skinny trees nearby.
In fact she was not glad at all, and she continued to think longingly about the beautiful coromandel screen in the apartment below her feet.
John gazes longingly at her but never dreams of making a move, despite his wife's spiral into self-absorbed hostility.
I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding.
The five children all stared longingly at each other, and joined hands in a small circle.
Her eyes traveled longingly to her large, unmade bed that she wouldn't sleep on for another month are two, at least.
Looking longingly at the items, she stood chewing her lip, wondering which item she should get.
Their impetus of drunken fun ranges from the longingly somber to the deepest screams.
I glanced longingly at the bright green bottle of Mountain Dew.
They looked back longingly to a mythical golden age in a medieval past.
In the photo, Baldwin is staring longingly into the camera, his eyes like two giant marbles, his chin resting in his hand.
In the end, he goes home with an aching heart and a collection of shells that he longingly sniffs.
A fat woman in a red and beige dress busily fanned herself while her male escort gazed longingly at the other women when he knew his wife was busy eyeing the young men.
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As 'longly' occurs nowhere else, it is probably only a printer's error for longingly, which I have given.
Uncle Matthew had spoken so sadly and so longingly that John had deeply pitied him.
She saw the Boston post-mark, and stretched out her hands for it longingly.
And so that fell to Father Peter's lot for which he had sighed so longingly.
Many a sullen planter eyed his fusil longingly, in the hope that Lawrence might emerge from the forests to head a new mutiny.
Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left.
She turned her head toward him longingly, yearningly, with heaving breast.
I looked longingly at the box seat, but he did not respond to the appeal.
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