Sentence examples for I pine for that from inspiring English sources

I look at objects in my house that my kids had when they were 3 and 4, and I pine for that time for a minute.

SONIA: And if I pine for you, that's my business.

So much for Chekhov; now for Durang's impish deconstruction: SONIA: And if I pine for you, that's my business.

It's not that I pine for lamb.

There is a magic in the ceremony of putting a record on that I pine for in this modern world.

Enduring these staged photo ops from my seat in the stalls, I pine for the zero tolerance approach that Richard Griffiths, for example, made his own.

I pine for the days when a set came that easy.

"Dark house, by which once more I stand / Here in the long unlovely street"—the Tennyson pages of my Norton Anthology of Poetry transport me not to Hallam's London neighborhood but to Mercer Street, where I pined for "a hand that can be clasp'd no more".

Seriously, it's moments like this when I pine for privacy to think and write that make me question the value of open-plan workplace design.

All of which I'm actually a big fan of, but goodness, it does sort of make me pine for that 200-person (I'm guessing) crackerjack team working on VisualAge for ten years at IBM.

It's hard not to pine for that wagging tongue.