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How to use repine in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Some think tensely about something, others are in a state of melancholy detachment and others still are mournful, yet never repine.
He may not repine at this, since the quantitative approach to literary communication may safely be disregarded: the legend on a paperback cover FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD says nothing about the worth of the book within.
The piece was made before Clark's career went into freefall in the 1990s with his much-publicised drug addiction and it's tempting to repine for the lost years and what might have been.
He did not repine, rating a good dinner higher than good intercourse.
But many times we complain, repine, and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine.
Examples from Classical Literature
She soon saw that to suffer was her duty, and though she might grieve, she must not repine.
In that wish there can be no harm, for it is only wishing that you may not be tempted to repine.
Never let us repine, howsomever, but consider that all is ordered for the best.
Be not discontented at them, repine not, nor grow peevish and froward to those about you.
Mr. groaner sighed with much feeling, and said she must not repine, adding in a comforting way that the world was full of sorrow.
Shall we repine at leaving the beauties of earth, when the Pearly Gates of Paradise are opening before our very eyes?
Why then should he repine when the hour of separation arrives?
And so I ceased to repine for the wound I had made in the heart of Semiramis Wilcox.
Well, even so, he would not repine, for Naomi could see now.
Ought she to repine at the fruit of her own indiscretion and folly?
She never seems to repine, but has all the buoyancy and gaiety of childhood.
Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine.
And shall a Jewess, like thee, repine because she hath no better?
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