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How to pronounce pining in English?

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Type Words
Type of hungriness, longing, yearning
Has types lovesickness
Derivation pine

Examples of pining

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Instead, you'll wind up pining for the intellectual banter of Lenny and Squiggy.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Arguably to derail Cisco, Rackspace and all the others pining for an open cloud.
From the techcrunch.com
Don't mistake my happy memories of growing up in Waterloo as pining for the past.
From the caucuses.desmoinesregister.com
It's true, Pumper has been pining for you, so I will leave you two to catch up.
From the economist.com
Those pining for a real keyboard, though, might want to wait for the Touch Pro.
From the techcrunch.com
Some of these songs left me pining for a grittier and less pretty interpretation.
From the npr.org
So Dolfans who are hoping for Peyton Manning are not just pining nostalgically.
From the stltoday.com
We need for the GOP to grasp the 21st century and stop pining for the glory days.
From the forbes.com
So if you find yourself pining for the Small Faces, say, that spirit lives on.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • A coniferous tree
  • Ache: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
  • Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
  • (pining) a feeling of deep longing
  • Pines are coniferous trees in the genus Pinus , in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.
  • Pine is a freeware, text-based e-mail client developed at the University of Washington. The first version of this client was written in 1989. Source code was available for only the Unix version under a license written by the University of Washington. ...
  • (PINES) The Public Information Network for Electronic Services (also known as PINES) is the statewide online library catalog started by the Georgia Public Library Service. ...
  • (The Pines (Lyons Falls, New York)) "The Pines" is a historic home and related dependencies located at Lyons Falls in Lewis County, New York. The main house was built about 1860 and is a timber frame, flat roofed, vernacular Italianate style residence. ...
  • (Pines) Generally referred to as the middle 20 feet of the lanes. Actually, on wood lanes, it represents the 45 feet between the arrows and the head pin.