hanker after
Example Sentences
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Intelligence officials have repeatedly made clear they hanker after the same generative AI tools that promise to revolutionize swaths of business and modernize economies.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024
As we get older, we all hanker after a slower pace of life, right?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2019
As people increasingly identify with more than one locality, so they begin to hanker after more than one resting place.
From Economist ● Apr. 12, 2018
Others yet might hanker after the secluded fringes of the beach, perhaps sheltered by natural promontories of rock that keep the biting wind at bay.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 23, 2017
"Of course any one as rich as she can give as many mittens as she chooses; there are always men enough to hanker after money, but there are some who don't care for it."
From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss
