hanker

We do often hanker to leave town on multimonth adventures that break us out of our routines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Those communities also hanker for weather radar to track incoming squalls, Way says.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2023

Designers, pundits and consumers alike hanker for reasons to dress up again — routinely and in public.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

“We’ve got to bend, not break. Things like that are going to happen and we’ve got to hanker down and try to get the ball back. I mean, there’s just no excuses.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

There is no question about our good intentions in this matter: we all hanker, collectively, to become applied scientists as soon as we can, overnight if possible.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Restaurants can run with seating limitations, but few are — nobody hankers for sit-down, Iowa Chops until they know the real score.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2020

For the designer Sandy Liang, who recently sponsored a pop-up shop on her island, it is a consumer who hankers for playfulness in a fashion world that often takes itself too seriously.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2020

But whereas Johnson craves fame, Stewart hankers for something more like the abyss.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2019

And if Meghan hankers for a stretch of sand to remind her of home, then we recommend she heads to West Wittering with its colourful beach huts.

From BBC ● May 19, 2018

‘Our Knowledge’, in Locke’s phrase, which must conform to observation, experience and testimony, is knowledge as acquaintance, but Locke still hankers over justified true belief.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He owns four other Fiesta models, including the sporty XR2 he hankered for since childhood that he bought in 2007 for £2,000, which is likely to be worth significantly more now.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2023

Like everybody else Reuters spoke to in Sirte, he viewed the 2011 uprising as a foreign plot to destroy Libya and hankered for calmer times when Gaddafi lavished money on the city.

From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2022

Back then, fear of centralism sprang from populists such as William Jennings Bryan, who hankered for easier credit for farmers.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

He hankered after something more evocative that would channel the dual narratives of Presley and the stupor of America.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2018

If he hankered for meat, Joe simply greased up his .30-06, hopped into the pickup, and went looking for it.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Above all, though, the commission’s recommendations faced resistance among the museum’s curators to the sort of great-man-of-history approach that Brooks and others were hankering for.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The thin float and retail investor enticement created an artificial scarcity — if you were a small investor hankering for a piece of SpaceX action the only place to go was an overheated stock market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

It’s the absolute goal of every resort operator to satisfy that hankering.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026

With no desire to restore cars and a hankering to entertain, he started researching restaurants, whiskey bars and speakeasies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

This more ’bout you hankering for your family so much that you ain’t looking at things clear.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis