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You could use it in a sentence to express a feeling of regret or nostalgia, for example: He had left his childhood home years ago, but now he longed to return.
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They longed to return to New York.
Without a suitable indoor facility in which to train, Reyes longed to return to New York.
That summer, Bill Keller told his wife, Emma, that he longed to return to writing.
She longed to return to Frades, although the situation there was hardly ideal.
In Venice, a city she loved and longed to return to?
Mamani longed to return to Pinaya, but thought it would be impossible to survive.
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He longs to return home to visit and see family he left behind.
Despite this, he occasionally hears of someone who longs to return to working the earth.
He dreams of returning to Russia, but more than anything, he longs to return to his public life in the air in front of a crowd.
Cooper has two children back on Earth and, like Leonardo DiCaprio's Cobb, in "Inception," he longs to return to his family.
What made her questioning especially poignant was that the makeshift, open-air orphanage where she longs to return is an unsteady anchor.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com