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How to use pining in a sentence

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Once this happens, our bodies will no longer crave toxins and my pining for chicken popcorn will fade.
A marmoset monkey was pining for his lost brother last night after thieves snatched him in a daylight heist.
King went on to say something that conservatives who bandy about his pining for a society in which race doesn't matter are loath to repeat.
I find myself pining for a return to the energy-conscious administration, when cars were named after little animals like rabbits and colts.
Over in Emmerdale,, poor old Alan Turner has been pining over lost love, Shelly.
Now that I was out and about, I was feeling a little stronger and wasn't about to spend the rest of the night pining after some guy.
Surely the Phantom suffered through worse all those hours pining after that lovely chorus girl.
Sue's children, twins Kimberley and Jamie, ten years, and 15-year-old Thomas were pining for the brindle and white pet to be returned.
Anyway, to stop me pining for my family, Reginald suggested we join a group protesting against a proposed massive wind-turbine development.
Mohammed dreamt up his alter ego working behind the counter at a drugstore, pining for something to freshen the job's tedium.
It is not a matter of pining after a more realistic ending, or for that matter after a cheap propagandistic ending.
People who are pining for easy, one-syllable answers find this kind of uninformed derisiveness compelling.
I had rejections, a string of unrequited loves that I laid awake at night uselessly pining over, and once I even got caught in a bear trap.
He was actually worrying and pining in his heart, but he could not say anything.
All the time he was talking, I was staring at the equipment laid out in front of us and inwardly pining to be set free on it all afternoon.
Best friend or not, he had let his chance with Krystal pass time and time again, pining away for Jess, a woman he could not have.
Norquist is apparently pining away for the day when America has the same tax system as economic powerhouses like Russia, the Ukraine, and Iraq.
Combined Schools would perhaps spend that day pining over a match they seemed to have had in the basket!
What Might Have Been is a melancholy sojourn through pining over possibilities.
It bleats like a child at its father's wake, relentlessly pining to crescendo before it collapses, exhausted, in its mother's arms.
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It cut short his philanthropical labours, but it drew him back into that current of active work for which he was already pining.
Now let us enter the carriage, for I am just pining to hear what it is you have on hand.
The child's just pining and pindling out of the world, an' I can't stop her.
Captivity was telling upon him, and he was pining as an eagle pines when caught and shut up by man even in a gilded cage.
The latching of the gate broke up her depressing revery and banished the pinched and pining look from her features.
What has the world been waiting and longing and pining for but the lop-eared guinea-pig?
Perhaps all this time Grace has been pining after the shakers.
None of us was pining to hold any sociables with the Malabistos.
There were two flies waiting, two porters, a bookstall, and a refreshment room with a neglected beauty pining behind the bar.
Test tube baby practice is the hope of families pining for baby.
Pining under the miseries of an unowned marriage, she is fast dying of pressure on the brain.
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