yearning
Example Sentences
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Young people are wearing wired headphones and yearning for an analog time they never got to experience.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
What’s more, research has long shown that globally engaged companies tend to create the good jobs at good wages for which so many Americans are yearning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
It’s also about the yearning for a more optimistic era of musical storytelling, when goodness could be counted on to prevail and a happy ending might be delayed but only rarely denied.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
All of this feeds into a broader identity crisis, with supporters yearning for a return to the early Abramovich era, but experiencing similar managerial turnover under the American ownership - without the same consistent success.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Georgie and I hid in the shadows, yearning to tell our parents where we were and what had happened, but in those days, the rules held us fast.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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