yearned for
Example Sentences
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After reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” she explained, she yearned for more “old-fashioned” stories centering girls and women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
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
She said she had never yearned for a baby but her husband desperately wanted to be a dad.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Looking at Milkman in those nighttime talks, they yearned for something.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
