Sample Sentences for
nostalgia
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  • Liesel, in the dusty dimness, shrugged off her feelings of nostalgia.  (source)
    nostalgia = longing for something past
  • "Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him.  (source)
  • Now, the truth is, that tape recorder was more than nostalgia.  (source)
    nostalgia = longing for something in the past
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  • But it isn't mere homesickness or nostalgia that has Laila thinking of Kabul so much these days.  (source)
    nostalgia = longing for something past
  • They spent the rest of the afternoon playing old video games like Donkey Kong and feeling nostalgic, which as a general statement, I found sad and sweet.  (source)
    nostalgic = with a longing for something past
  • We sometimes look through our collection nostalgically, the way other families look through old photos.  (source)
    nostalgically = longing for something past
  • Of this, in later years, both were glad, and both would also wonder if this meant that they had made a mistake, that if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.†  (source)
  • ...he found nothing that seemed worthy of his nostalgia.  (source)
    nostalgia = sentimental memories
  • This was such a perfect friend moment, it made her feel kind of melancholy and nostalgic.  (source)
    nostalgic = longing for something past
  • Older people often looked back nostalgically to the days of the last wali.  (source)
  • She had reached old age with all of her nostalgias intact.†  (source)
  • All of this felt particularly sweet in these last days, as the nostalgia that kicks in at the end of any meaningful experience had started to affect us.  (source)
  • But years from now, when you're feeling nostalgic about this summer and yet can't really reminisce because of a lack of documentation, don't blame me.  (source)
    nostalgic = with a longing for something past
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