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Example sentences for "wistful look"

  • Only when he found her did she rise up with a wistful look and a faint smile.

  • And there was a wistful look in her eyes.

  • Her tone was wholly frank and cordial, but there was a wistful look in her face, as of one who knew how roughly life handles all youthful enthusiasms.

  • As for Aunt Agatha, she went and came about this house, which could never be otherwise than interesting to her, with a wistful look and a flickering unsteady colour that would not have shamed even Nelly's sixteen-year old cheek.

  • I caught a wistful look in the blue eyes; and then I told Maillot something of what was in my own mind.

  • He looked away again quickly; but I could not help associating this brief episode with Burke's wistful look in the same direction the afternoon before.

  • As I turned to depart I noticed that he was following me with a wistful look.

  • Heaven knows how well I love her," he said, turning to me with a deep, wistful look.

  • He smiled rather sorrowfully, and his dark eyes wore a wistful look.

  • So, with a wistful look at the pensive, delicate face that never had grown, never could grow old, I glanced at the empty panel that intervened between this picture and the the next.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wistful look" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another legend; asked you; eight leaves; first hearing; full face; future generations; great houses; humble address; legislative action; much delicacy; passage through; primary qualities; public libraries; similar kind; special name; supply them; thine eyes; three members; various periods; vast height; what use; wistful look