Sentence examples for longing to play the from inspiring English sources

So many years had passed that Travolta switched from longing to play the youthful hero of the movie to setting his sights on the nine-foot villain with the cackling laugh -- and, yet, even after a string of $100 million box-office hits to his credit, Travolta could not get Hollywood to budge on "Battlefield".

But by then, she was already longing to play in the American college system, and for the U.S. national team.

Where are the Democrats in their avid middle years longing to play on a national stage, labouring now to lay the groundwork for a big run down the road?

If children are fascinated by a particular type of instrument and ask specifically for it, then listen to this desire and choose the instrument they are longing to play.

"It's a team I've been longing to play for, I like to follow their games, and their league – the men as well.

Sometimes the author's fanciful inventions don't serve her well, as in "Chest of Drawers," in which a husband longing to play more of a role in his wife's pregnancy eventually grows actual cabinetry — the title is literal — where he stores a collection of dolls.

I don't see myself redeveloping that longing to play".

But it's just as likely to be that I had a toy given to me at a certain age, and I was really longing to play with it, and then I lost it or something".

If you, however, find yourself longing to play on, say, a round table with five other people (perhaps all wearing mesh jerseys), then this modular ping pong table is for you.

But then Woody cast me as a Republican and then Nora cast me as a nice guy husband, and although those experiences were phenomenal and I would never change them I was longing to play something more complicated and darker.

Mark had no longing to play piano or, for that matter, any other musical instrument.