He desperately longed for a break from his job.

Andy longed desperately for some grown-up who could take command and tell him what would be the best thing to do.

As a child, Meloy "desperately longed to be taken away to another world."

As he grew older, he desperately longed for a commonplace life like everyone else.

But, after two years, the lad got weary of this idle life, and longed desperately to visit his home again.

He desperately longed to be there, digging at the mortar.

She desperately longs for word that the election has changed their lives; but no one comes.

Yet I desperately longed to see my wife and family again.

She'd seen that as a trap, once, and longed desperately to be free of it.

He longed desperately, at the moment, for the physical knowledge locked in the other's brain, so that he need not put his thought into words.