"overwhelming" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Seeing his broad back and shoulders, the proud carriage of his dark head, she felt an overwhelming longing to give in to her clamouring body.
- An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart.
- Swept by an overwhelming longing to touch him, she let her hands relax, absorbing the feel of the hard muscles of his back against her palms.
- All thoughts disappeared, swamped with an overwhelming longing even stronger than those on the first night he had taken her to bed.
- As in the parallel literature of Christian mystic love, this was a device enabling a poet to concentrate upon describing the feeling of being in love and especially of love's overwhelming longing.
- She closed her eyes, desperately trying to find the anger which had protected her from him so far, but found only an overwhelming longing to simply lose herself in his arms.
- The prostitute Mary suddenly feels an overwhelming longing to travel to Jerusalem.
- She had an almost overwhelming longing to be held against that hard chest, enfolded in strong arms, and that was more worrying than anything else.
- Staring listlessly at herself, Hilary suddenly felt such an overwhelming longing to hear their voices again, make it right, that, without stopping to consider it further, she ran quickly upstairs to get her purse.
- The pain in her throat had gone as had her headache and all she felt now was a overwhelming longing for coffee.
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