hanker

Example Sentences

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It’s enough to make a reader hanker for a volume devoted to the director’s long working relationship with Head or for a filmography refracted through the actresses he obsessed over and glorified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

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

From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2023

“I kind of do still hanker for that.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2022

Designers, pundits and consumers alike hanker for reasons to dress up again — routinely and in public.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

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