Examples of 'had longed' in a sentence
Meaning of "had longed"
had longed: Past tense of longing, which means to feel a strong desire or yearning for something
How to use "had longed" in a sentence
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What we had longed for became ours.
Sinbad spotted what he had longed to find.
I had longed to carry on the family tradition of going to parades.
All his life he had longed for vengeance.
I had longed to give my husband a son.
Now the opportunity he had longed for was at hand.
Hannah had longed for a child for many years.
As if he gained what he had longed for.
I had longed for home.
Support system he had longed for.
She had longed for him to say that to her.
Jenny wondered why she had longed to grow up.
And she had longed to see her children for many weeks.
I have given you what you always you had longed for.
Since childhood he had longed to try surviving alone.
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There she had found the home she had longed for.
It was a voice he had longed to hear for five years.
It seemed like he would finally get the girl he had longed for.
The father figure he had longed for and respected all his life.
The perfectly formed male fetus represents the new life she had longed to have.
Any woman who had longed for a child at one time or the other.
Jami remembered his loneliness and how much he had longed to play with the children.
He had longed for En as if for a lover.
She ironically found the fame she had longed for in her death and continued legend.
De Meester felt that this was an opportunity to serve for which she had longed.
Rob said he had longed to break into Australian cinema.
Clearly a situation that Elena had longed for.
I had longed for a different life since I was a child.
It gave me the independence which I had longed for.
David had longed to bring the Ark to Jerusalem.
It has given me the happiness I had longed for.
How I had longed for that moment.
Eyes a fragment of that riverside country which I had longed so much to.
I was grateful because I had longed to get back to me for weeks.
I had longed to witness just one year of happiness by your side!
That was definitely the break I had longed for and nurtured for two years.
She had longed to go to the military, but was banned because of her condition.
Finally came the moment I had longed for.
What I had longed for was happening.
In him God gave me the son I had longed for.
However, she had longed to work independently.
These values of feeling coy, having respect for elders is what I had longed for.
On the days when he did not speak, he had longed to communicate with someone.
Although she had longed to talk to him, they had only exchanged a few hellos.
A few days before, he had longed for Paris.
Abraham had longed for an heir, and God gave him a promise far beyond his expectations.
A strong admonition, yet something I had longed to say to my colleagues for years.
These values of feellng coy, havlng nespect fon eldens … Is what I had longed fon.
A thousand times over, she had longed to trade these countless beds for her secure pallet.
Finally, on the horizon… Sinbad spotted what he had longed to find.
