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Definition of longed-for in English: longed-foradjective Strongly wished for or desired. a longed-for second child Example sentencesExamples - Whatever way you look at it, it's the most longed-for celebration on the nation's calendar.
- The exams didn't go as well as hoped, the grades weren't there - and that longed-for university place looks like going up in smoke.
- Three years ago, she began the search for a clinic which could give her the longed-for fourth baby.
- School holidays have finally arrived, and with them looms the prospect for many of finally being able to take that much longed-for summer holiday.
- In my part of the country, the oppressive days of late summer are now past, and the first hint of the longed-for winter rains have teased us by speckling the dusty ground.
- Then I realised that the longed-for news of peace had come through on the last news.
- Crucial documentation surrounding the case is currently being studied by counsel in the hope of launching proceedings which could result in a longed-for conviction.
- Despite being described as the most exciting and wide-ranging British actor since Daniel Day-Lewis, fatherhood has been his longed-for role.
- Luke was a longed-for baby.
- Through Edmund's influence Summers is given his longed-for captaincy.
- Make a list of your fundamental needs and your most longed-for wants.
- Margo was second youngest, the only and much longed-for girl.
- With coaching, people from all walks of live are experiencing significant shifts in their lives and achieving more of their longed-for goals in every conceivable area.
- Her ailing father turned his face to the wall when he was presented with a princess, rather than the longed-for male heir.
- The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
- People with terminal illnesses living in the Sheffield and Peak District areas will be able to apply for bursaries from the charity to help them realise longed-for dreams.
- Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
- They are a happy, successful couple whose only flaw is the absence of a longed-for child.
- A pair of love birds found out what it was like to be treated like royalty when a longed-for letter from the Queen arrived by special delivery.
- My father, who had no interest in fishing himself, eventually accepted this was no passing childhood whim and one day the longed-for parcel arrived.
Synonyms attractive, sought-after, in demand, popular, looked-for, desired
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