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
Perhaps that's because the radical reform of the type William Lewis claims to hanker after did not occur.
From BBC ● May 7, 2019
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
Much as a man might hanker after wine, all desire of drinking would forsake him, if he should be placed among full barrels in a cellar, where the foul air was like to suffocate him.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
