Sentence examples for only long for from inspiring English sources

We can also weary at times of what we only long for and don't possess.

The film chronicles two years in the life of Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister in Portland, Ore., who, as the movie opens, has what many ministers these days can only long for: a full church with an active congregation.

There was a preference for "sense and sensibility", for Edward Waverley rejecting the wild passionate Flora for the prudent and irenic Rose in Walter Scott's novel.Faced with today's tide of fact-free politics, one can only long for balancers – German, French, Dutch, but especially British – to reappear on the European stage.

Even the cuts to the ABC and SBS hit voters who not only long for their dose of Midsomer Murders and Q&A, but also those in rural communities fearful that local news and issues-based programs will be compromised with the loss of funds.

The 11th-century poet Judah ha-Levi not only longed for it in verse but also gave it a significant role in his theological interpretation of Judaism and eventually sought to return to it from his native Spain.

Leave only long enough for all the mussels to open (3 or 4 minutes).

Many experiments studying basic visual abilities use short display times, typically only long enough for a single fixation.

All winter, you've probably been walking Sparky only long enough for him to do his business.

The only long-term hope for the continent's economies is business development.

The only long-term sink for Hg in the global biogeochemical cycle is sediment burial.

"You only have so long for a honeymoon period".