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wistfully
[ wist-fuh-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that is characterized by melancholy or longing; pensively:
As soon as the first colored leaves appear, people start to speak wistfully of the last days of summer.
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Example Sentences
As he files, she wistfully lists names of places that linger in her deep memories but have no meaning: Delaware, Europe, Zimbabwe and the Equator.
“I sold 20 knives a week,†he said wistfully, adding that he’s “not great at working for other people.â€
The elderly woman gazes wistfully into the distance, her hands curled over a basket of tobacco, surrounded by the hundreds of cigarettes she has spent hours rolling by hand.
“He didn’t recognize them as a bad influence or something that’s holding him down,†she recalled wistfully.
“I’m learning who she is,†Wallace says about Cox and Desiree alike, wistfully summing up what “Clean Slate†aspires to be.
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