yearningly

Example Sentences

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Yearningly wistful, almost elegiac, it suggests that, belatedly, Bowie might for the first time be simply being himself in a song.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

Yearningly, he cried: "I love thee," to the radiant saintly face, But the never-ceasing answer was a look of Heavenly grace.

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence

Yearningly I listened As they swept over, Yearningly I cried— O wild things, that I Could fly as do you!

From A Little Window by Snyder, Jean M.

Yearningly did St. Angé womankind hark back to it.

From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

Yearningly then, and only when it had done so, Miss Cutter took up the money.

From Some Short Stories [by Henry James] by James, Henry