Sentence examples for the homesickness from inspiring English sources
noun
The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.
Looking back through those columns, the homesickness rises like steam.
"And my family was in Kenya, and I sometimes got the homesickness.
To battle the homesickness, he started raising a few chickens and planted a garden.
Victory in Europe appears to have accented only the homesickness of the American troops.
They put a Hollywood sheen on the homesickness of the Irish diaspora.
She will do the same this fall while trying to fight the homesickness.
In the end, homesickness was the spur she needed, and in 1963 she published a well-received first novel, Run River, about a crime of passion and an old California ranch.
Having managed Tinariwen for seven years before giving up showbiz to write full-time, I understand the purgatory of the media machine and the guaranteed homesickness of Tuareg musicians.
The main stated reason for those who left Ingushetia to live in the Chechnen TACs were: the poor living circumstances in the spontaneous settlements, homesickness and the prospect of compensation offered by the authorities.
Perhaps teams suffer from jet lag early in the series and homesickness at the end of the series and both in the middle of the series.
This is the source of a different kind of grief, and perhaps of the generalised homesickness she often feels.
