Longingly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LONGINGLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• With longing.
ADVERB:
• LONGING
• with a yearning desire
• in a yearning manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a strong desire especially for something unattainabl; craving

Words related to LONGINGLY

longing9

How to use LONGINGLY in a sentence

• A cheerful aroma greeted her, and she sniffed at it longingly.
• To such a man a home was a refuge pitifully needed, and for a while longingly sought.
• When he lighted his lamp and looked longingly toward his downy bed, he saw a pair of flashing eyes glaring at him over the coverlet.
• They are the symbols of an innocence that once was ours, the tokens of a contact with the unseen world for which we in our blindness grope longingly in vain.
• Both man and beast looked longingly toward the town, which promised companionship and revelry to the one, and rest and fodder to the other.
• The Italians had been looking longingly at this district for some time, intending to organize an expedition and forcibly annex it to their kingdom.
• They watched longingly the point of road where the party had disappeared, even Miss Lily peered vainly into the empty distance.
• And in her disturbed dreams, as Ootah watched through the long hours, she murmured vaguely, but longingly, for the spring.
• She paused in her walk, and stood gazing at it longingly.
• This was indeed discouraging to the traveler, and he sat down beside the river and looked longingly at the farther shore.
• Phil was beginning to think longingly of the basket of food which she had left in the tent and wondering if it would do for her to go after it while Madge stayed on guard.
• It was not the recollection of school nor college learning, but the rapturous and earnest reading of my childhood, which made me bend forward so longingly to the plains of Troy.
• I looked longingly out to sea for the ship that never came, and chafed like a man who is bound hand and foot.
• David looked at her longingly, but he dared not intrude upon her somber abstraction.
• Lorraine thought longingly of Yellowjacket and his stubbornness and tried to devise some way of escape.
• During his frequent pauses for rest he stood up to gaze longingly at the goal that still appeared as far away as ever, and grew more unattainable as the day wore on.
• With head over the top wire he gazed longingly at the clumps of grass on the hummocks scattered over the muck of the overflow.
• The big, peering eye seemed to look longingly upon that road.
• Thither Washington used to ride and look longingly at the pomp and glitter, and wish that he wore engaged in the service.
• One day passed after another, and Daisy looked longingly for her summons home, and still she did not receive it.
• The bear was a cautious animal and slowly he circled the pit, sniffing longingly at the carcass so close at hand.
• He spoke longingly of the days of his youth and wondered if the shape of his knees had changed much since the last time he saw them.
• At length he reached his limit, possibly for the first time in his life, and looking longingly at a juicy red strip Jim held out, he refused it with manifest shame.
• All the other guests had retired, and a lurking porter yawned longingly in the passage, waiting for an opportunity to put out the last of the lights and get to bed.
• I read their titles longingly, breathing on every accessible pane of glass, for I dared not attempt to open the doors, with the enemy encamped so near.
• They looked longingly at it, as they desired very much to see Bernardo Galvez at once.
• The store-keeper happened to look out and saw the same little girl who stood looking so longingly in at his window in the morning.
• For long months he did not meet her, until one day he saw her deep eyes fixed longingly upon him from a thicket in the swamp.
• Happening one day to have forgotten to bring my noon-day luncheon, I gazed longingly at that of a small girl who was preparing to eat hers.

Similar words containing LONGING without suffix ly

longing9 longings10 plonging12 allonging11 belonging13 belongings14 emplonging16 prolonging14 belongingness17 belongingnesses19

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