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Example sentences for "wistful"

Lexicographically close words:
wissenschaftlichen; wist; wistaria; wiste; wisteria; wistfully; wistfulness; wistly; wistna; wit
  1. With a wistful little smile she assured him that she did mean it most seriously.

  2. In fact, I regard spiritualism as--" Seraphine lifted her hand with a wistful little smile that checked the outburst.

  3. Be careful," whispered Mattie, as she passed in, and Mattie followed her with her wistful eyes.

  4. Ann, with a wistful look at the holy volume in her lap; "it's too much thinking that has done this harm.

  5. She pressed closer with sudden desperate courage, her voice full of wistful friendliness: "Oh, major, what have I done to offend you?

  6. All my life I've been a wistful beggar, eager and hungry for love.

  7. Her poor wistful eyes were filling with tears as they met his, with a dumb appeal for sympathy.

  8. There was something touching in the squire's wistful looks after Molly as she moved about.

  9. And as this thought flashed across her mind a wistful sadness fell upon her, and a vague pain came into her heart.

  10. She held out both of hers, and looked at him with a strange, wistful yearning in her eyes.

  11. As she looked across the room at him, that awful, wistful longing which only a woman who loves with all her heart can feel, took possession of her and mastered her.

  12. The fire on the beach dimmed to a red spark and then vanished from their wistful ken.

  13. It was an important event when the Plymouth Adventure hoisted all her bunting on sailing day and Charles Town flocked to the harbor with wistful envy of the lucky people who were bound home to old England.

  14. What Master Cockrell said in reply sounds as familiar and as wistful to-day as when he spoke it two hundred years ago.

  15. She had taken his hands between her own and kept on raising her eyes to him; and Beautrelet constantly observed that her hands were twitching and that the wistful sadness of her eyes increased.

  16. She was conscious of perplexity in his face, he of something wistful and questioning in hers.

  17. By these she found it wanting, and with a wistful sigh she stretched out her hand and turned off the light.

  18. She sent him some in a box, and he wrote her a quick little note of thanks--very grateful and wistful he seemed.

  19. Gloria scrutinized the drawing again, and then the wistful face before her.

  20. Our song," he repeated with a wistful emphasis on the pronoun.

  21. But Bab broke down; for the wistful look of the creature's eyes reminded her of lost Sancho, and she sobbed quietly as she glanced back longing to see the dear old fellow jogging along in the rear.

  22. His cynicism had come to have a strangely wistful ring.

  23. Not that he could often see Victoria, who was nursing M'Barka, and looking so wistful that he guessed she had half hoped to find her sister waiting behind the white wall on the golden hill.

  24. When she had had time to control her voice and expression, she spoke, releasing her sister, taking the wistful face between her hands, and gazing at it earnestly.

  25. It seems a sort of new life to me;' and a wistful face was gently upraised.

  26. She looked up in his pale face in a strange wistful way, scanning it with her grey eyes.

  27. Rhoda, looking at him in a strange wistful way, and brightening suddenly, and putting back all her cloudy hair with her hands.

  28. Dolly looked up with wistful speaking eyes, and Lady Sarah almost understood their mute entreaty.

  29. Little Rhoda was shorter and slighter, with great dark eyes and a wistful pale face; she was all shabbily dressed, and had no frills like Dolly, or flowers in her hat.

  30. And once more the fluttering hands went up, and the dark wistful eyes gazed childishly, piteously into his face.

  31. She was looking up with great wistful eyes, and for a minute she did not see him.

  32. Little Minnie looked puzzled and wistful for a moment, as if, notwithstanding all he had said, the affair was not much clearer; but she said nothing.

  33. Erminie, laying down her work with a wistful sigh.

  34. I wish I had asked her about it," said Frederica, regarding the old woman with wistful eyes.

  35. There were no tears in the great wistful eyes turned towards her, but there was something which the old woman found it quite as hard to meet.

  36. The heart turning sick to faintness at the mere sight of each other, the hands trembling at the mutual touch, the wistful eyes shining with a glance that too surely spoke of undying love!

  37. She sat looking at him with her wistful eyes.

  38. Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature that now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.

  39. Penrod chose the latter, and betook himself slowly to the back fence, where he was greeted in a boisterous manner by his wistful little old dog, Duke, returning from some affair of his own in the alley.

  40. Then Oliver, catching sight of the bottle slipping from the pig-dealer’s pocket, turned his wistful eyes on the Scotchman.

  41. Jane Bristol shook her head with a wistful smile.

  42. Only little children brought the wistful look to her eyes, and a wonder whether people had it made up to them in heaven when they had failed of the natural things of this life.

  43. There stood a tall man with a keen, care-worn face, a scholarly air, and an unmistakably wistful look in his eyes.

  44. There was almost a smile on her beautiful lips, a strong, sweet, wistful smile.

  45. His sister cast a wistful glance at him as she started the car.

  46. Involuntarily she stretched them out to the gray dusk with a wistful motion.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wistful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ashamed; blue; cognitive; conceptual; funky; hankering; introspective; languishing; longing; meditative; melancholic; melancholy; mental; musing; noetic; nostalgic; pensive; pining; reflective; regretful; remorseful; rueful; ruminant; serious; shamefaced; shameful; sober; sorry; speculative; thinking; thought; thoughtful; wistful; yearning