yearn
Example Sentences
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A recent social-media trend has people sharing photos from 2016 and yearning for a time when bloggers had not yet turned into influencers and social media still was something of a novelty for many.
From MarketWatch
Somewhere between a yearning for motherhood and a woman’s understandable hesitation about it is where the bulk of O’Hara’s onscreen interpretations lived — confidently, outlandishly, and except for Kate, clad in eccentricity.
From Salon
“We want everybody to be left yearning,” Brady adds.
From Los Angeles Times
The song also reminded Americans what they were fighting for and captured a yearning to be home with family during the festive season.
Mr. Dalrymple cites the example of U Ottama, also called Mahatma Ottama— “a short Buddhist monk with large ears and a scar on his forehead”—who yearned for Burmese union with India.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
