Sentence examples for long time longing from inspiring English sources

Many rebels resisted the Norman invasion for a long time, longing for 1065 and all that.

Living fossil conjures up the idea of long-lived species or organisms out of time longing for the good old days of the Devonian and disdainful of whippersnappers with their colour vision and adaptations to human pollution.

Glamorgan's Craig Meschede told BBC Wales Sport: "It's been a fantastic day and it's a massive achievement for me, something I've been longing for for a long time.

(SUD + ASD 2) I was longing for a relationship for a long time, because that's the standard.

Next he visited the house (called Quinta das Angústias, or Anguished Villa) where she died; he wrote: "for a long time I stood silent amidst thoughts of sorrow and longing under the shadow of a magnificent tree that enfolds and protects the house where the angel, so bitterly wept for, ceased to exist".

In part, perhaps, because he was so unreconciled to his longings, he limited himself for a long time to brief encounters.

I have lived in this town for a long time, but I was raised in Bakersfield, California, a town I was longing to flee by the age of ten.

I remember standing on tip-toe for a long time at the pool's edge, fearing the inevitable plunge, yet longing for the seductive blue water.

I was longing to brand myself with his name for a very long time".

Instilled in us by our parents and grandparents, who love this country, we have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time - and before we were married, we both had a longing to come here together.

"Long time".