Sentence examples for pining away from inspiring English sources

I considered those naysayers jaded has-beens, fusty old-timers pining away for the nonexistent "days of the giants".

The typical style of the princess pining away and waiting for the dashing prince to rescue her is history.

At least I don't think I remember seeing Barcha through the barbed wire, pining away for her master.

As for older audiences, they get a new twist on a form they've been pining away for.

Frances de la Tour's Aunt Imogene, pining away for an imaginary prince, is like a crinolined version of her Miss Jones in Rising Damp.

Anyone who has spent an evening listening to those softly plucked guitars, lovelorn lyrics and wailing female vocalists will probably think that the Portuguese capital is a haven of heartbroken fishwives pining away for distant sailors.

Nerissa pined away and died.

I pine away for its incredible energy.

There he embarks on a life of depravity while Anna pines away.

"I pined away for this for months, because I can see it from my train stop," Ms. Capalad said.

In some versions of the story Layla dies in a distant country, and he pines away in grief.