Sentence examples for he is longing from inspiring English sources

He is longing for this whole thing to be over as soon as possible.

Osborne repeats that he is "longing for Manchester's deal to spread".

Richard Griffiths comes on dying for one twice over: as the actor playing the poet, anxious to get off and do his voiceover for Tesco, he's desperate for a cigarette; as the candid, repetitive, smelly old Auden, he is longing for the rent boy.

He is longing for a cigarette, too, only today he is not at home in Cairo, where he can happily smoke himself to death if he so chooses (the Egyptians puff their way through 19 million cigarettes every day) but in the quiet confines of the Gore hotel, Kensington; it will be a while longer before he can scoot out to the pavement and light up.

He also talks about how he is longing for their wedding day.

Prince Harry says he is "longing" to spend some time with his family after arriving back in Britain following his 20-week deployment in Afghanistan.

He comes from a long line of preachers, and perhaps in his final years, he's longing to "come home" to the community that supported him before he was famous.

By then, as Lelyveld writes, he was longing for death.

He was longing to show it off, and Picasso was thrilled to see it.

Waugh aged prematurely; in his late 50s and early 60s he was longing to die.

Back in January, before the job loomed, Fincham said he was longing to 'get back closer to programme-making'.