Sentence examples for our homesickness from inspiring English sources

We often gather to cure our homesickness.

It is, he says, "an exemplar of what's become a key condition for us, which is a homesickness in our own lives".

For someone whose family has lived in New Orleans since the 18th century, who grew up there speaking the patois into which locals still fall among themselves, who takes his coffee with chicory and his jambalaya with cayenne, only one word encompasses my sense of displacement, loss, and homesickness as we made our way through America this past month: exile.

Seven weeks into our year of living in Europe, homesickness hit and hit hard.

By choosing to celebrate the holiday — as we came to celebrate the Fourth of July — we were staking our claim on this new life, declaring that, despite homesickness and hard winters, we intended to endure and make a permanent settlement.

There were policy debates: Adolf Strauss, in "Heimweh" ("Homesickness"), argued that "we need a land of our own/to make an end of distress and pain," while Carlo Sigmund Taube, in "Ein Jüdisches Kind" ("A Jewish Child"), wrote that "as long as you are not filled by the word 'homeland,' your heart will stay unfettered".

It's like homesickness that occurs at home, as the physical integrity of our home environments unravels around us.

As if hardship and homesickness and melancholy and longing will always be a normal part of our lives.

The persistence of homesickness points to the limitations of the cosmopolitan philosophy that undergirds so much of our market and society.

Though occasionally straining for relevance ("ringxiety": "low-level anxiety causing us to think we've heard our phones ring"), the book is full of delights, evoking a sense of kaukokaipuu, a Finnish term for homesickness felt for a place one has never been.

Homesickness is universal.