"painful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Though she had come to terms with her husband's absence, a painful longing wrenched her.
- Her eyes were filled with painful longing.
- But she never revealed these painful longings to a living soul.
- Though the chimney seemed a long way off, the sight set off an almost painful longing in her heart for sunshine, clouds, and a distant horizon.
- Something unfamiliar stirred in Elisabeth, a profound emotion in which painful longing - she knew not for what - was accompanied by anxiety.
- She had come to Chicago to be with it, and it had deserted her, leaving in its place a painful longing, an unresigned despair.
- And now I'm glad to know I am not alone in feeling "a most painful longing."
- Would womanly hormones set off renewed, painful longing for Renna, her first, though chaste, male love?
- Her painful longings for the past were swiftly replaced with a remembered sense of hurt and betrayal.
- Groans that could only have been from painful longing tore from half the assembled Ocampa.
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