hanker

Even if he does still hanker after a prominent political role, he will almost certainly be barred from getting one.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

I didn’t understand then that it is possible to hanker deeply after something that is neither pretty nor useful, just because of the person who once used it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

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

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2023

“I kind of do still hanker for that.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

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

Customers, he insisted, still hankered after the noise and fury of a conventional motor.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

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

After nearly eight months of "oily and salty" prison food, Barbie told the Sunday Times she would like to have some salad and marmite, while Peter was hankering for baked beans.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

It is by no means comprehensive, but if you’re hankering for one great music doc or 10, it’s a place to start.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl