Sentence examples for a longing to return from inspiring English sources

"There's a longing to return to that," Colonel Marti said.

But it also reflected a longing to return to normal life.

Some posit it's simply a longing to return for brief moments to childhood.

But inside there was compassion and a longing to return to a simpler life.

The result has been a romanticization of the era when Britain was "great" and a longing to return to this.

Throughout the 70s and 80s, I supported all the cultural and sporting boycotts of South Africa, but at the same time always had a longing to return to the land where I first learned to walk and talk.

A revival of Horton Foote's drama about a woman longing to return to her childhood home.

Heading home from my ­family ski-trip to Les ­Crosets, Switzerland, I'm carrying with me, along with the bumps, bruises, chapped lips and sunburned nose (and an as yet undigested kilo or so of Swiss cheese), a genuine longing to return.

Here, the song's protagonist is a soldier longing to return from war to see his wife and child.

This is what all the Republican candidates exploit; a deep, nebulous longing to return to a simpler time - despite the pesky little fact that such a time never was.

How much of this is driven by the practical demands of the economy versus a more emotional longing to return home?