How to Use pine for in a Sentence

pine for

verb
  • Half of people are pining for those.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • As Shane and Ilya pine for one another.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The angst of two sweaty men pining for each other transcends culture.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Mike, who has been half-pining for Daisy in obscurity this whole time, tries to kiss her.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There were certainly parts about home that Marner wasn’t pining for.
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Wilson has been pining for another one for 10 years.
    — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Wild fans pining for a reunion of brothers at the trade deadline definitely got one.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Think about what that game meant to Bears fans who have pined for a playoff win and a quarterback who could do the unthinkable.
    — Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Nearly 70 years later, some people in Brooklyn still pine for the Dodgers.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Baseball coaches long have pined for some version of a double-elimination or best-of-three system in their playoffs.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The best native pine for our climate is single-leaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla).
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Tucker recommends cinnamon for fall, pine for winter, and florals and citrus for spring and summer.
    — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2026
  • After a dismal 2-for-27 start to his career at the dish, Eldridge rode the pine for a weekend in mid-May to clear his head.
    — John Laghezza, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • At no point does his character summon thunder and lightning from the sky, pine for the good old days in Asgard, or reference the Nordic gods of yore.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There is a funny thread of everyone thinking Woody’s getting a bit old – rocking a paunch and a poncho – while Buzz pines for Jessie.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • For her role as Sarah, a sweet woman who pines for her handsome colleague while taking care of her brother, Sellers went through a hair transformation.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The legs on both sides of the field were visibly heavy from the 60th minute on, while the Denver faithful of 63,004 pined for a goal.
    — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • After the best of the album’s crescendos, Ellis strips everything away again, pining for a character named Annie.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Those ties alone would appeal to a portion of the fan base still pining for a return to the Huggins-era glory days, but Calhoun has shown enough to warrant attention regardless.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
    — Ben Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • This welfare-first logic has come at the cost of the armchair fan, who pines for the heady days of Qatar 2022, when there were just five kick-off times to contend with, all played within a single time zone.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • The Democratic strategists who have chewed over their party’s unpopularity in memo after memo since last November pine for an authentic tribune of the working class.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The brand’s recently launched Vintage collection is for those of us who pine for retro designs but don’t want to spend the hours thumbing through Facebook Marketplace for a secondhand option.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Baby ponders love in all its rejuvenating and off-putting shapes, sweating with a husband and father’s devotion but sometimes with a son’s pining for a closer connection with an oaklike and unreadable elder.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Coming off the Canadian leg of her Red tour, and perhaps pining for her homeland, Swift hosted a rather modest affair for crew members and dancers in 2013.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
  • Valentine, Andrews’ ninth LP, offers a conditional yes—not by pining for anyone in particular, but by fiercely defending the right to pine.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In pining for her missing dad, Abigaëlle (played at seven by Ella Bedoucha and at 14 by Nour Salam) cannot see the love offered by her mother and brother.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Sullivan also accused Morgan’s wife, the journalist and author Celia Walden, of pining for infidelity in her social media posts.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • It’s being billed as a romantic getaway, but honestly, visiting with a friend and pining for your crush the entire time would be an equally authentic Wuthering Heights experience.
    — Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'pine for.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: