hankered after
Example Sentences
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Customers, he insisted, still hankered after the noise and fury of a conventional motor.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
I had, for years, hankered after this particular model of Skoda.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2015
The new leader, who is 60, had long hankered after the job.
From Economist • Sep. 17, 2015
Behind the laughter, James hankered after seriousness, plugging away like Sisyphus at poetry and critical essays, and later some fiction.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013
Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
