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
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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Matilda
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