wistfully

Adverb

Meaning

in a wistful manner

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Examples

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them." Bel Kaufman

I don't see what alternate reality was possible other than the one's we lived through. So I think people are really wistfully hoping for something that was never going to be. Julia Gillard

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return. Isabel Yosito

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. Mary Roberts Rinehart

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home. Candace Bushnell

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. "Anyone else here feel like swooning? Richelle Mead

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