hanker

Example Sentences

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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

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

We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas