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

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

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, 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 Richard’s eyes studied the face before him, and yet he would not ask her the question that burned in his heart.

From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Kennedy, Sara Beaumont