yearning

Example Sentences

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One of the novel’s characters insists that all of us share “only one important story: of youth, and loss, and yearning for redemption. . . . Just the details are different.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Experimental and fun, it crushes the stars' voices through digital effects that give their declarations of undying love a yearning, other-worldly quality.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Mr. Scaggs’s moving lyrics and yearning vocal made the song a pop standard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The noise and press of bodies and damp tobacco air satisfied a homesick yearning for a Saturday night pub.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan