In a creature is my natural home.
Have me in your meal and you'll become me.
(With me, this line would be adjacent.)
Experts take more time with me.
In winter wear, I might be half a mile.
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I really hope the answer is
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In a creature is my natural home.
belonging - meaning your natural home, the creature is a being.
Have me in your meal and you'll become me.
elongating - meaning becoming long, and eating as in your meal.
(With me, this line would be adjacent.)
alongside - meaning adjacent, the remark is an aside.
Experts take more time with me.
prolong/s - take more time, the experts are pro/s.
In winter wear, I might be half a mile.
Furlongs - furs are winter wear, four furlongs is half a mile.
Title: I wish, I yearn, for an answer to this riddle
long - to wish or yearn for something (such a puzzle from jafe or Rand).
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1$\begingroup$ Correct answer! But there's a slightly better word to use for line 2, and a much better word to use for line 4. How about the title? $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2019 at 10:41
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$\begingroup$ Fully correct. Your green tick will be along at some point. $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2019 at 11:05
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$\begingroup$ The bit about "yearning" in jafe's riddle made me think of that particular synonym, and I went looking for words containing it. Soon enough it was clear both that I was barking up the wrong tree for jafe's puzzle and that I had enough words to make a nice new puzzle :-) $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2019 at 13:50