hanker

It’s enough to make a reader hanker for a volume devoted to the director’s long working relationship with Head or for a filmography refracted through the actresses he obsessed over and glorified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2023

When bat droppings are scarce, female Neotrogla hanker for sperm, which is encased in nutritious capsules called spermatophores.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

“I kind of do still hanker for that.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

If a man hankers for visions, he should do it in public, where it does us some good. second priest: It doesn’t look right, beloved friend, wandering around in the middle of the night.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Her early dreams were of the stage rather than politics, and with her natural exuberance and love of the limelight, she hankered after a career as a dancer.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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

The romantic in me hankered after that golden-age ambience, and Kingston’s plight seemed to sum up the decline of chess since it had been front-page news in the Fischer era.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2016

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

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

The stories frame the all-consuming desire for retaliation as an integral aspect of our mortal lives; no one gets out without hankering for a bit of vengeance.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026

And distributors, dizzy from years of surprises and disruption, are hankering for a universally appealing, tried-and-true marketing campaign, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

“And you had a hankering for some more snickerdoodles, I reckon,” Cook said, giving her a wink.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland