Sentence examples for years longing to from inspiring English sources

Looking for Alibrandi, Melina Marchetta I spent most of my teenage years longing to be older.

It's true, however, that having spent years yearning to be seen, he now spends years longing to be invisible.

Where are the Democrats in their avid middle years longing to play on a national stage, labouring now to lay the groundwork for a big run down the road?

But what is correct is that I woke up every single day in opposition for five years longing to have a chance to do this job for real in government.

Miserable boarding school years longing to vamp not pupils but teachers were followed by a useless journalism course and art school; useless because he already knew what he wanted to do in life, and that was not to do, but to be.

Former Ireland captain Phillip Matthews has been chatting to our man Bryn Palmer and puts it down to English forwards still, after all these years, longing to stuff it up the jumper while the backs catch nothing more than chilblains.

After years of longing to believe, she stopped attending services in the 1990s.

At 90, Mr. Shaw is by all accounts the same garrulous, curious, contentious man who put down his instrument 46 years ago, longing to free himself from the seductive lures of superstardom but never quite capable of turning his back on fame.

He comes from a long line of preachers, and perhaps in his final years, he's longing to "come home" to the community that supported him before he was famous.

It was hard for me not to imagine my own daughter a dozen or so years from now, longing to replicate the gyrations and sexual gestures of another - but similarly overt - pop idol.

His story describes how nine-year-old Barry Bennett, longing to change his nice but dull parents for something more glamorous, discovers his wish has suddenly been granted.