hanker
Example Sentences
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I didn’t understand then that it is possible to hanker deeply after something that is neither pretty nor useful, just because of the person who once used it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
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 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
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