How to use "pining" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pining" in popular movie and book plots

  • Innocent pining becomes silent obsession, however, when Dilip decides to install a surveillance camera directly over Rekha's bed.  - Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala
  • The play opens with Silvia in the palace, pining for her lover, Arlequin, who has also been brought to court.  - Double Inconstancy
  • Iht spends his days pining over Maek, and tracks down Maek's brother, Mhok, and their mother.  - Bangkok Love Story
  • Jim is pining for Ella’s recognition and Shorty and Joe questions his blackness because of his desire to graduate and pass the bar exam.  - All God's Chillun Got Wings (play)
  • When Yang's friend realize they are pining for each other, she decide to bring the couple together again.  - Crossroads (1937 film)
  • Jeeva (Ajithkumar), living in the same colony, has been pining silently for her for the last four years.  - Anantha Poongatre
  • Phaedra has been left alone to care for the palace, and she finds herself pining for the forests and the hunt.  - Phaedra (Seneca)
  • But Zadny, pining for his master, escapes his pen and tracks Tamas's scent over the mountain with Yuri in pursuit.  - The Goblin Mirror
  • Amélie seems to be pining for something.  - René (novella)
  • Even more upset is Stew's best friend Gallagher (Loretta Young), a "sob sister" columnist secretly pining for him.  - Platinum Blonde (film)
  • Hack pretends not to care while secretly pining for the award.  - For Your Consideration (film)
  • Priya (Simran) wants to marry only someone who is an ex-smoker, an ex-drunkard and ditched by a girl but still pining for her.  - Vaali (film)
  • Lady Esther is obviously pining for home but states that she can never return and Pyne tells her that he knows the reason why.  - Parker Pyne Investigates
  • The narrator spends his time waiting for assassins to arrive, pining over Sandii, and contemplating suicide.  - New Rose Hotel
  • Donald and José meet up with several of the locals, who dance a lively samba, and Donald ends up pining for one girl, but fails.  - The Three Caballeros
  • Winter finds the six younger brothers pining for the girls for whom they had fallen fast and hard.  - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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