hanker

Even if he does still hanker after a prominent political role, he will almost certainly be barred from getting one.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

We do often hanker to leave town on multimonth adventures that break us out of our routines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

When people in the Niassa Special Reserve of northern Mozambique hanker for something sweet, they don’t call DoorDash or Uber Eats.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2023

“I kind of do still hanker for that.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

She also hankers after her mother's "unmatched" egg and potato sandwiches.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Restaurants can run with seating limitations, but few are — nobody hankers for sit-down, Iowa Chops until they know the real score.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2020

For the designer Sandy Liang, who recently sponsored a pop-up shop on her island, it is a consumer who hankers for playfulness in a fashion world that often takes itself too seriously.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2020

But whereas Johnson craves fame, Stewart hankers for something more like the abyss.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2019

If a man hankers for visions, he should do it in public, where it does us some good. second priest: It doesn’t look right, beloved friend, wandering around in the middle of the night.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Back then, fear of centralism sprang from populists such as William Jennings Bryan, who hankered for easier credit for farmers.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

“People have always hankered after a bit of peace and quiet.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2019

They were quickly tiring of the format of radio comedy shows of the time which included music, sketches and one-liners, and hankered after something with more depth.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2017

Some hankered for u-turns in policies; some wanted an entirely new approach to governing.

From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2017

Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Above all, though, the commission’s recommendations faced resistance among the museum’s curators to the sort of great-man-of-history approach that Brooks and others were hankering for.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The thin float and retail investor enticement created an artificial scarcity — if you were a small investor hankering for a piece of SpaceX action the only place to go was an overheated stock market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Fans have been hankering for a follow-up to GTA 5 after it was released back in 2013, and became one of the best-selling games of all time.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

It’s the absolute goal of every resort operator to satisfy that hankering.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026

This more ’bout you hankering for your family so much that you ain’t looking at things clear.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis