Sentence examples for sudden longing from inspiring English sources

Not wanting to be swept away by sudden longing.

Michael J. Launay, proprietor of the Web site New Jersey History's Mysteries, (members.xoom.com/ launaymi1/index.htm) nominated another moment when people must have felt a sudden longing for a simpler, and certainly safer, type of summer.

The December vote was close (TPA passed by one vote), highly partisan (only seven Democrats voted in favour of it) and doubtless a result of the Republicans' loyalty to a president at war rather than of any sudden longing for free trade.

Another early warning sign is a sudden longing for a reunion of the cast of the high school sitcom "Saved by the Bell," which went off the air in 1993 but was beloved by those in grade school at the time.

My own transformation didn't begin with an unbidden outbreak of baby lust or a sudden longing for domesticity.

The Andromeda, a sudden pang of longing.

"When he picked them up he felt a sudden shock of longing for Catherine, like he'd been hit by some kind of spooky lightning". It's tempting, here, to look for meaningful parallels.

I felt a sudden, inchoate longing for my mother.

In the heat of battle at ten past eight, the last thing a Today guest needs is a sudden, helpless longing to be liked.

Long – and longing.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.