verb
definition
To take a long position in.
verb
definition
To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
example
She longed for him to come back.
verb
definition
To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
verb
definition
To belong.
Examples of longing in a Sentence
It was strange sitting beside him and longing for him to come back.
Struck by longing, she gave a soulful sigh.
A tiny voice whispered a warning about the longing that consumed her.
He lowered his head to her neck, breathing in her scent with a mix of longing and anger.
Sometimes, she heard longing in his voice, the same yearning she experience for him.
Sofia watched her take a bite of a muffin, at once longing and agitated.
Apparently he saw the longing there, because he slowly leaned down and kissed her lips.
No good could come of longing for things a person could never have.
I took the book in my hands and tried to feel the letters with an intensity of longing that I can never forget.
But the most characteristic passage of the epopee is the mysterious disappearance of Shah Kaikhosrau, who suddenly, when at the height of earthly fame and splendour, renounces the world in utter disgust, and, carried away by his fervent longing for an abode of everlasting tranquillity, vanishes for ever from the midst of his companions.
In 1514 the archbishopric of Mainz fell vacant again, and Albert of Brandenburg, already archbishop of Magdeburg and administrator of Halberstadt, longing to add it to his possessions, was elected.
There was passion and a deep longing she innately understood only she was able to fill.
A book of stories of adventure on the sea, which he read over and over again when a boy, had filled him with a longing for a seafaring life.
It appears from Craig's letter, to which we may therefore assign the date 3589, that, five years before, he had made an attempt to reach Uranienburg, but had been baffled by the storms and rocks of Norway, and that ever since then he had been longing to visit Tycho.
Still unsatisfied, longing always for a certainty that seemed ever just beyond his grasp, he had added vigil to vigil, and penance to penance, until at last, when to the wondering view of others he had become more than a saint, his bodily strength and his indomitable resolution and faith had together suddenly and completely broken down.
Biographers have delighted to relate how painfully Demosthenes made himself a tolerable speaker, - how, with pebbles in his mouth, he tried his lungs against the waves, how he declaimed as he ran up hill, how he shut himself up in a cell, having first guarded himself against a longing for the haunts of men by shaving one side of his head, how he wrote out Thucydides eight times, how he was derided by the Assembly and encouraged by a judicious actor who met him moping about the Peiraeus.
The good doctor had travelled much, and the reading of his itineraries and note-books awakened such a longing for travel in the young Holberg that at last, at the close of 1704, having scraped together 60 dollars, he went on board a ship bound for Holland.
He lay down on the edge of it and I burned with longing to caress him and lie down too.
That bittersweet chocolate gaze mesmerized her, filled her with a longing that he would not satisfy.
All derived existence, however, has a drift towards, a longing for, the higher, and bends towards it so far as its nature will permit.
He took a disgust to the world and its occupations, and experienced a longing to give himself over to an ascetic life.
At the same time the longing for radical reform and the belief that it would be easy were almost universal.
It also encouraged the growth of a community life, which eventually gave birth to an intense longing for national life.
This yearning is a dumb unintelligent longing, which moves like a heaving sea in obedience to some dark and indefinite law, and is powerless to fashion anything in permanence.
She tipped her head back, longing for him to kiss her the way he used to.
She imagined he went to her apartment to check on Toby and was struck by her longing to return to the tiny, cluttered mess of a life that was hers.
In England the younger Henry had built himself up a party among the more turbulent section of the baronage, who remembered with regret and longing the carnival of licence which their fathers had enjoyed under King Stephen.
I know you think I have all this longing inside me, but I don't.
With that sudden rush of excitement came the realization that she had gone an entire day without longing for him.
The chief associates of Eros are Pothos and Himeros (Longing and Desire), Peitho (Persuasion), the Muses and the Graces; he himself is in constant attendance on Aphrodite.
Neoplatonism owes its form to Plato, but its underlying motive is the widespread feeling of self-despair and the longing for divine illumination characteristic of the age in which it appears.
Louis Napoleon could feel vaguely the state of public opinion in France, the longing for glory from which it suffered, and the deep-rooted discord between the nation and the king, Louis Philippe, who though sprung from the national revolution against the treaties of 1815, was yet a partisan of peace at any price.
Seized in his turn with a longing for the cardinals hat, Dubois paid for it by the registering of the bull Unigenitus and by the persecution of the Jansenists which the regent had stopped.
Savor every moment of the present instead of longing for the future.
The longing to arrive at the one explanation of all things, which had inspired the older philosophers, became less earnest; the belief, indeed, that any such explanation was attainable began to fail.
In September, 1786 Goethe set out from Karlsbad - secretly and stealthily, his plan known only to his servant - on that memorable journey to Italy, to which he had looked forward with such intense longing; he could not cross the Alps quickly enough, so impatient was he to set foot in Italy.
The chief responsibility for this rests with the worldly College of Cardinals, who were longing to return to France, and thence drew their inspiration.
His disappointed ambition prompted him to take the step for which his countrymen were longing, for they too were grumbling at the withdrawal of the "presents," in other words the veiled ransom-money, which for many years they had been accustomed to receive.
Paul's shrinking from the disembodied state and longing to be clothed upon at death in 2 Cor.
But the longing for these pledges of the divine assistance was insatiable.
They have a longing to know God, to follow God, to pursue holiness.
This longing to distinguish themselves, to maneuver, to overthrow, and to cut off showed itself particularly whenever the Russians stumbled on the French army.
In this period of degeneracy there were none the less an awakening to religious needs and a profound longing for a new revelation of truth, which should satisfy at once the intellect and the religious emotions.
But when we look at the deeper side of the Messianic conception in the Psalter of Solomon, at the heartfelt longing for a leader in the way of righteousness and acceptance with God which underlies the aspirations after political deliverance, we see that it was in no mere spirit of accommodation to prevailing language that Jesus did not disdain the name in which all the hopes of the Old Testament were gathered up.
She felt a deep sense of loneliness and longing.
Moreover, he had no very pronounced political ambition, and was an utter stranger to that longing for power, which drives so many men of talent to adopt extreme expedients.
In the splendid balance of his nature the Virgilian longing, rerum cognoscere causas, could never indeed wholly silence the call to exercise his active powers.
He began to be haunted by a strange curiosity about the unpardonable sin, and by a morbid longing to commit it.
There was no bloodlust, but rather a longing that gripped him and clouded his thoughts.
He should be fighting bloodlust by now, yet it had simply disappeared, replaced by longing for something more, a yearning to be part of this woman, to be everything to her, and for her.