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Example sentences for "longings"

Lexicographically close words:
longi; longicaudus; longicorn; longing; longingly; longis; longish; longitude; longitudes; longitudinal
  1. This is the mood which was to be given utterance in that wonderful lyric, "Over the Lofty Mountains," in which all the ardor and the longings of passionate and impatient youth find the most appealing expression.

  2. Surely it must be better there, Broader the view and freer the air; Com'st thou these longings to bring me; These only, and nothing to wing me?

  3. He has much more in common with the workingmen of other nationalities of the country--he has sorrows, struggles, indignation and longings for freedom in common with them.

  4. Repeated persecution has put the stamp of sorrow on the Jews; they have grown big in their endurance, in their comprehension of human suffering, and in their sympathy with the struggles and longings of the human soul.

  5. We fall short even of our own ideals; we feel we have unsatisfied longings and daily wants.

  6. He feels that he has spiritual susceptibilities and longings for a Divine inspiration.

  7. The longings by which I had just now been absorbed, to go to Guermantes, to travel, to live a life of happiness--I was now so remote from them that their fulfilment would have afforded me no pleasure.

  8. How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care!

  9. These vague longings and dissatisfied thoughts caused Nell to lose interest in her home duties.

  10. Every boy with ambition in his heart feels great longings to be useful in this world, to accomplish something.

  11. It is not nature that a boy should settle down to carry a man's responsibilities, and any boy who has it to do will either become a drudge or will suffer with restless longings that can hardly be controlled.

  12. According to each boy's talents and inclinations these longings take different forms.

  13. Among these was Beatrice Neilson, and she herself did not fully understand the dreams and longings that swept her ever at the fall of the mysterious wilderness night.

  14. In the glory of that moon Fenris the wolf knew the same, resistless longings that so many times before had turned him from the game trails.

  15. They were all swept with mystery, knowing vague longings or fierce desires.

  16. All her dreams--the natural longings of an imaginative girl born to live in an uninhabited portion of the earth--were inextricably bound up in it; whatever plans she had for the future always included it.

  17. A man who lets all his longings go unchecked and untamed after earthly good has none left towards heaven.

  18. So here this Psalmist, because his soul was filled with true longings after God, passes clear through the externals and says, 'Here am I with no incense, but I have brought my prayer.

  19. And do I know the happy birth of fresh longings out of every fruition, and how to go further and further into the blessed land, and into my elastic heart receive more and more of the ever blessed God?

  20. He and he alone is stung with restlessness and conscious of longings and needs which find no satisfaction here.

  21. Each of your earthly joys fills but a part of your being, and all the other ravenous longings either come shrieking at the gate of the soul's palace, like a mob yelling for bread, or are starved into silence; but either way there is disquiet.

  22. Christ will satisfy all my longings and desires with His own great fulness.

  23. Such longings as these might seem audacious, when the atrocity of the crime is remembered, and by man's standard they are so.

  24. Whoever poured out this sweet meditation in the psalm before us, his tender longings for, and his jubilant possession of, God remain the same.

  25. The Psalmist's longings are expressed in the first of them in plain words, and in the second in a figure.

  26. Vivid memories of a grave, sweet, sad face came to her at intervals, and when these memories visited the child longings came also.

  27. He would pour out all his cares and all his longings into the ears of this wonderful being.

  28. He loved his mother and he could not break her heart, so he kept all these little longings and desires to himself, and only half let out his secrets a dozen times a day.

  29. This will have a tendency to affect your heart with a sense of guilt, produce earnest longings after holiness, and make sin appear more hateful and odious.

  30. Do I experience any ardent longings after his spiritual presence with my soul?

  31. Do I feel more intense longings of soul after conformity to his image?

  32. In it a man may not live in quietness of heart, nor may the longings of love be satisfied therein.

  33. Indicative longings such as you employed in your letter, you may safely trust me to understand.

  34. Why have we longings of immortal pain, And all we long for mortal?

  35. Vera with her long legs and her laughing eyes and her happy, unimaginative youth--how was she to know that the Simpsons of life stand for romance and mystery and longings unachieved?

  36. He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien.

  37. She had seen the man that she had so foolishly and fondly believed Ralph Towne to be; she had learned that she could not create out of the longings of her own heart a man too noble and true for God to make out of His heart.

  38. One of her great longings used to be for letters; oh, if the postman would only bring her a letter!

  39. Surely the deep longings of his father for communion with God were yet better.

  40. David, a fugitive in the cave, haunted by the 'nostalgia' that made Bethlehem seem so fair and dear, may stand for us as an example of the longings and thirsts that sometimes force themselves into consciousness in every soul.

  41. All the little whimsicalities, sentiments, little loves, and heart-longings of human beings are ever present in his plays.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.