Sample Sentences forwistful (editor-reviewed)
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Sitting in her wheelchair, the old woman looked wistfully at the young dancers.wistfully = showing longing or unfulfilled desire
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She had a wistful, dreamy look as she thought about how life would change if she could get a good job.
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Over and over they asked her, shocked at first and then wistful: (source)wistful = showing longing
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He was smart and cunning, but his gaze was wistful. (source)wistful = showing longing or unfulfilled desire
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"Gee," Johnny said wistfully, "it sure will be good to get into a car again." (source)wistfully = in the manner of someone who misses having something they used to have
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"Blue would be nice," said the other voice wistfully. (source)wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
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"If I had been the boy you sent for," said Anne wistfully, "I'd be able to help you so much now and spare you in a hundred ways." (source)wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
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I couldn't decide if her tone was wistful or resentful.† (source)
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And the wistfulness of his voice was like a reaching to something, and it was as if she were what he reached with. (source)wistfulness = full of longing or unfulfilled desirestandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He thought wistfully of the guys out on the football field in the sweet fresh wind, tossing the ball around before practice began. (source)wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
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"I was to Holland once," he said, voice wistful with recollection.† (source)
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He doesn't seem to notice, there's a note of wistfulness in his voice.† (source)
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DOC What're you gonna be when you grow up? ANYBODYS [wistfully.] A telephone call girl! (source)
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At this, she would give a wistful smile.† (source)
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We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.† (source)
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"You have a dry sense of humor, haven't you?" she said--wistfully. "Father said I have no sense of humor at all." (source)
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