hanker
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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
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
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
Some hankered for u-turns in policies; some wanted an entirely new approach to governing.
From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2017
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
Like Methuselah I cowered beside my cage, and though my soul hankered after the mountain, I found, like Methuselah, I had no wings.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
It’s the absolute goal of every resort operator to satisfy that hankering.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2026
Last spring, the Midwest transplant was hankering to see some wildflowers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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
It's not clear any party is hankering after an early test of public opinion.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
Though he felt he was cut off from them forever, he had a strange hankering for their presence.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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