Sentence for longed | Use longed in a sentence

Sentence using the word longed. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use longed in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for longed.

  • How he longed to travel! (2)
  • I longed to know for why. (4)
  • He longed then for a great leader. (14)
  • She longed to be at Mount Laurels. (10)
  • How she longed to know what he said. (5)
  • Was this the moment she had longed for? (8)
  • She, who had so longed to be in an abbey! (4)
  • I longed to jump up and ride till midnight. (10)
  • He longed to preach; he was impelled to chatter. (10)
  • He was driving away, and he longed to turn back. (10)
  • And it was an instruction he now longed to give his son. (8)
  • She had longed so many evenings to see him sitting there. (8)
  • She longed to ask her how she liked it, but did not dare. (8)
  • And she longed to be able to say something more to the purpose. (4)
  • Carlo hesitated; he longed to hear those ladies talk of Vittoria. (10)
  • Though she longed to see him, she literally dreaded their meeting. (8)
  • He longed for a friend to confide in, and consult; but he knew no one. (8)
  • He longed to have been at sea, and seen and done and suffered as much. (4)
  • She longed to speak a word in sympathy or relieve her bosom of tears. (10)
  • His state was indefinable, but he longed to hint at it to his companion. (9)
  • The water in the jug was warm and flat, yet she longed for a cool drink. (5)
  • She longed to go and kiss his brow, and make him feel that she was aching. (8)
  • She longed to get to her early roses, and see how the rain had treated them. (8)
  • She longed so for a sight of her son that her thoughts carried her no further. (8)
  • Her silence irritated Stephen, whose loyalty to his brother longed to fend a vent. (8)
  • You said, you thought of them often, and longed to find out what you could do to help. (10)
  • Another failure of mine was the sight of Whittier, which I then very much longed to have. (9)
  • How he longed to be somewhere else, and see the round world before he went into the grave! (2)
  • She was, in triumph, doing something real for those she loved and longed to do things for. (8)
  • Weyburn longed to enfold her, and she desired it, and her soul praised him for refraining. (10)
  • He longed to tell Woodseer he had seen a sort of Carinthia sister, cousin, one of the family. (10)
  • She longed to, all the same, feeling that to be closer to her aunt meant to be closer to Derek. (8)
  • That one evening at any rate he had longed for her, eleven: years ago, when she was in her prime. (8)
  • He longed to get her back home, away from temptation to the burning indiscretion of this marriage. (8)
  • I longed gloomily for the moment to come when he would present himself to me in his natural form. (10)
  • Her heart felt as if it would melt right out of her; she longed so to warm and dry him with herself. (8)
  • How I longed to feel his slippered feet on my broad back, and hear again the plaudits of onlookers! (21)
  • But the more she sought and longed, the deeper grew her bewilderment, her feeling of being in a cage. (8)
  • Cynthia let a rustic silence ensue, and Westover shrank again from the inquisition he longed to make. (9)
  • In the hall one longed for the first step of the stairs; it seemed so comfortable, logical, inviting. (12)
  • Of her dear Isabella, to whom she particularly longed to point out that gentleman, she could see nothing. (4)
  • And he was going to be an unselfish, sustaining, true, strong man, the man she longed for, for anchorage. (10)
  • He longed for the hour of his next dose, and for a caricature to follow, that he might drink and defy it. (10)
  • But he longed for higher things, and after a tour as violin virtuoso, he studied at Leipzig, under Reinecke. (3)
  • Miss Cotton gave a small jump at the word, as if she had already committed the crime: she had longed to do it. (9)
  • She longed to inquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it. (4)
  • He longed, rather, to comfort her; she seemed so lonely and, in spite of all her stoicism, so distraught and sad. (8)
  • I could praise his deeds at Saratoga; how he longed for active service; his marriage and its financial obligations. (18)
  • A fierce resentment burned in her heart; she longed to make him feel something of the anguish she had needlessly undergone. (9)
  • I stammered, I reddened, I longed to be up in my room brushing and curling my hair, and was ready to curtsey to everybody. (10)
  • She longed to see the Crofts; but when the meeting took place, it was evident that no rumour of the news had yet reached them. (4)
  • He longed for some familiar face to welcome him, and in the horse-car into which he stepped he was charmed to see an acquaintance. (9)
  • If it could be done, it would enable him to make Stoller the reparation he longed to make him more than anything else in the world. (9)
  • He longed to cry aloud in his shame and pain, and to fly for comfort to his sympathetic mother and strong brother in the other boat. (5)
  • She longed to fling herself down at his knees, but he was so still, that to move seemed impossible; she remained silent, with folded hands. (8)
  • The sisters felt they were the patronesses of the little obscure genius whom they longed for to illumine their household, before they knew her name. (10)
  • Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful friend; so easily guided that his worth was invaluable; but she checked herself. (4)

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