hanker

Example Sentences

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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

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

Nearly a month of shelter-in-place orders have forced some to hanker for the sticky floors of cinemas like never before.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2020

There is no question about our good intentions in this matter: we all hanker, collectively, to become applied scientists as soon as we can, overnight if possible.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas