Example Sentences

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"My suitcase is packed in my head," she said, explaining that she has yearned to reconnect with everything that she misses about Iran: "the atmosphere, the streets, the neighbours, friends, everything".

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

This is the chance they have yearned for.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

There are many mothers who go to the hospital to deliver a child they love and yearned for but won’t take home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

It is the very voice the Framers yearned for engaged citizens to bring to the jury box.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025

Gabe felt it all slipping away: his dream of returning, of finding his mother, of becoming part of something he had yearned for all his life.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry