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

“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

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

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

Mr. Rossi recalled some students in his “The Art of Persuasion” class hankered for contrarian readings outside what he called the “Grace political bubble.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

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

Fans have been hankering for a follow-up to GTA 5 after it was released back in 2013, and became one of the best-selling games of all time.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 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

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

On the day after Gram was buried, her friend Gloria—the one Gram thought was so much like Phoebe, and the one who had a hankering for Gramps—came to visit Gramps.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech