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But it doesn't matter, because Roxie's not long for this town. As soon as her mother's better, she'll be on her way to Paris.
2009, Karen Hawkins, Talk of the Town, page 126
third-person singular simple present longs for, present participle longing for, simple past and past participle longed for
(transitive) To have a desire for (a thing or an event). examples
(transitive) To miss (someone). quotations examples
“I will stay now, if you bid me,” she replied, as low. “See, I am going to my mother, who longs for me as I for her. I will not go unless you let me.”
1888, Tighe Hopkins, For Freedom, volume 2, page 104
For some time he had not heard from his consort […] His heart longed for her and his child.
1982, Luise Mühlbach, chapter LIV, in F. Jordan, transl., Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel, page 297
He remembered those long years before his marriage, when he had longed for her and she had resisted him […]
2011, Edith Sitwell, Fanfare for Elizabeth