Use of wistful in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include wistful at the start of sentence, wistful at the end of sentence and wistful in the middle of sentence

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wistful at the end of sentence


  1. She seems a little wistful.
  2. His sole reference to Watergate was wistful.
  3. I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful.

wistful in the middle of sentence


  1. He has a wistful look.
  2. He looked so wistful as he went away.
  3. She was not sad, only wistful, blanched.
  4. She had a last wistful look at the house.
  5. He felt wistful and then smiled to himself.
  6. Rosalie Naumann contributed her wistful smile.
  7. As we erected the tent Tony became wistful again.
  8. With another wistful sigh she sat back in her seat.
  9. The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.
  10. His smile faded, became a wistful, boyish expression of loss.
  11. It is impossible not to be wistful for them, if only in passing.
  12. "I wish life was always like this," she said with a wistful sigh.
  13. I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up.
  14. His brief anger passed, and a wistful smile crossed his swarthy face.
  15. Simon's face grew wistful as he thought about his happy student days.
  16. But as the wistful cherub of 18 months, photographed at her play group.
  17. Then I wandered around for a while, casting wistful glances at my tables.
  18. His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this whole meeting of men so pitiful.
  19. She was fair and rather birdlike, with brilliant eyes and a small wistful mouth.
  20. Her face softened immediately, affection and wistful envy mingling in her expression.
  21. On occasions he seems wistful and quiet but his attitude is definitely and generally antisocial.
  22. There is something about train travel that prompts a kind of wistful, almost poetic, detachment.
  23. Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature.
  24. If you look too hard it disappears altogether into a kind of wistful, disappointed light in the night sky.
  25. The human landscape so lovingly evoked by Leigh Fermor, Lawrence Durrell and others is now a wistful memory.
  26. Gouache is ideal for recording the fleeting effects of light shimmering on the sea and the wistful skies above.

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