How to Use yearning in a Sentence

yearning

noun
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  • So a post like Bradley’s can trigger a yearning for the past.
    — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
  • As the movement evolved, a yearning for roots took hold.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • The yearning to talk to her sister through letters had been a long process.
    — al, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The woman was chesty, the man powerfully built, the curves of his thighs yearning for the curves of hers.
    — Dave Eggers, Wired, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Some 111 years later, the ghosts of the victims are said to remain in the house, yearning for justice.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But there is a real yearning to go back to face-to-face meetings.
    — Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The result is a high-octane duet with both Love and Cher belting out the yearning lyrics.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Lanterns gleam overhead, adding warmth to the yearning music.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But his yearning to protect them at all cost, was worth the effort.
    — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 19 June 2022
  • The quasireligious yearning to leave the dying Earth and be born anew has been the basis of all sorts of space dreams.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The yearning to learn how to do something better did not stop with science.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • There's even some hint of yearning for an apocalyptic event to restart the world.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 May 2024
  • For all of his self-doubt and yearning, Bourdain lived life fully — maybe too much so.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2021
  • For all of his self-doubt and yearning, Bourdain lived life fully – maybe too much so.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2021
  • Those yearning singalongs floated on the cool evening air, as the voices of fans rose to meet Rankin.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Because all of that striving and yearning is taken care of.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There’s just something so yearning about the chords, lyrics, and melodies together.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
  • No one ever stood a chance of equaling Spector’s blend of yearning and grit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Where there’s a yearning for content, there’s a streaming service to meet it.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
  • For music lovers, the lack of concerts has stirred a yearning for sonic bliss that the best live stream can’t produce.
    — Alex Leary, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The moaning and groaning, the searching and yearning are real.
    — Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • In its pages, The Fraud does not reach deep enough into Eliza to convey her seeking and her yearning, to build up a sense of what that might be.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the United States, the yearning for a patch of earth winds through a far different history.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Oh My, is a yearning riff on the impermanence of life itself.
    — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Right now, that’s one big olfactive yearning for the days of mall hangouts and baking with mom.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This record has so much yearning, so much of me shaking the other person and being, like, ‘Why not?
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • But doing that for four years, there was a desire and yearning to round that out, to lean into some spaces of joy.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 3 Dec. 2021
  • That’s not a bad thing -- the yearning for a little more adventure, the wonder of what’s beyond that next bend or peak.
    — Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • All three seem to get along just fine, which makes the natural yearning for an old flame to rekindle all the more tantalizing.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The lyrics depict how many high schoolers feel when expected to act maturely as children, only to grow up yearning to be more carefree in adulthood.
    — Jasmine Sessoms, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024

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