Wistfully

We can't sit there looking wistfully on as this city falls into decay.

Tom gazes wistfully over the rooftops to where his lover lives.

These days we look back wistfully towards our lost youth.

She looked wistfully at the old photograph, then at her own reflection in the mirror.

Karahan spoke wistfully of the throngs of tourists that used to pack into his gift shops.

His name is Ted Ames, and on one recent warm, warm blustery morning in Stonington, a picturesque village of about 1500 souls at the tip of Deer Isle, Maine, he could be seen, gray bearded and wiry standing on the dock and looking wistfully out to sea.

When he had wistfully watched the workmen for some time he took courage, and ascended the ladder till he stood beside them.

Then one evening, while taking the commuter train home, he sees a beautiful woman gazing wistfully from the window of an office building.

It was so frightful, so atrociously hideous a scene, that two big tears again fell upon Pierre's cheeks, whilst Guillaume's blurred, despairing eyes gazed wistfully far away, seeking for the Future.