Pining is an English word with synonyms like longing or yearning. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pining meaning
present participle and gerund of pine
Using Pining
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of pine
- Useful related words include: longing, yearning, hungriness.
- In the example corpus, pining often appears in combinations such as: pining for, is pining, been pining.
Context around Pining
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pining
- In this selection, "pining" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, start, constant, fans, away and liv stand out and add context to how "pining" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a mass pining for more and after pining to see. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pining" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and absolve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pining
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's not even on her radar, that you are pining. (11 words)
Rhea Ripley celebrates after pining Liv Morgan to win the Women’s WarGames match. (14 words)
But a trend this big isn’t just a mass pining for more family time. (15 words)
Probably the biggest flaw in Martha as a character was her constant pining over the Doctor, who was ignorant of the girl who had been clearly swept off her feet by him during their Rhino-filled encounter on the moon. (40 words)
We quickly found solace in our shared circumstance, and now he and I hang in the kitchen of a gay bar divulging details of our sex lives and pining to meet the man of our dreams. (36 words)
They click surprisingly quickly after Ezra has been pining for a romantic relationship, and once he proposes to her, they begin the journey of navigating their very different cultural backgrounds. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Barbieland is also populated by droves of Kens, virtually redundant apart from posing and pining for their Barbies who generally pay them little mind.
If this keeps up, I might start pining for the days when my biggest problem was figuring out how to make a spider-cloning storyline sound appealing.
I’m not pining for physical violence; more so just a way definitive way to solve our differences.
Kristin Kreuk's Lana Lang started out as the girl next door that Welling's Clark Kent was pining for.
Probably the biggest flaw in Martha as a character was her constant pining over the Doctor, who was ignorant of the girl who had been clearly swept off her feet by him during their Rhino-filled encounter on the moon.
The lyrics are extremely relatable, contrasting a girl next door and popular girl -- and the nerdy girl is pining away for a guy she can't have.
They click surprisingly quickly after Ezra has been pining for a romantic relationship, and once he proposes to her, they begin the journey of navigating their very different cultural backgrounds.
While a fifth person said: “She is pining for the attention, the style he brought her.
After pining to see Knicks land a superstar for decades, they finally stumbled on one in Brunson.
Fans pining for an offensive skill position player (including myself) might not like his history there.
If anyone deserves uncomplicated love with a man who worships her, it’s the woman who spent years so openly pining for it.
It’s a heartbroken song that sees the narrator sitting in a bar in Fort Worth pining for his ex who has moved on and relocated to Dallas.
It's not even on her radar, that you are pining.
Rhea Ripley celebrates after pining Liv Morgan to win the Women’s WarGames match.
This cultural malaise has employees pining for an imagined past where they felt grounded and connected with their colleagues.
We quickly found solace in our shared circumstance, and now he and I hang in the kitchen of a gay bar divulging details of our sex lives and pining to meet the man of our dreams.
But a trend this big isn’t just a mass pining for more family time.
Certainly, there is reason to doubt that Bloomberg can be the moderate messiah for whom Boot is pining.
It's five weeks into lockdown, and the youngest member of LA rock trio Haim is pining for the rest of her family.
MacIntyre produced the most sophisticated contemporary attack on the Marxist project, by attacking its philosophical and moral under-pining.
Common combinations with pining
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pining for 33×
- is pining 4×
- been pining 4×
- pining over 3×
- pining to 3×
- fans pining 3×
- and pining 2×
- after pining 2×
- still pining 2×
- with pining 2×