hanker

Example Sentences

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Those communities also hanker for weather radar to track incoming squalls, Way says.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2023

When bat droppings are scarce, female Neotrogla hanker for sperm, which is encased in nutritious capsules called spermatophores.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Americans, meanwhile, likely hanker for some reassurance, solid facts, helpful hints and news of promising plans.

From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2022

“We’ve got to bend, not break. Things like that are going to happen and we’ve got to hanker down and try to get the ball back. I mean, there’s just no excuses.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2021

We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas