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

Intelligence officials have repeatedly made clear they hanker after the same generative AI tools that promise to revolutionize swaths of business and modernize economies.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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 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

‘Our Knowledge’, in Locke’s phrase, which must conform to observation, experience and testimony, is knowledge as acquaintance, but Locke still hankers over justified true belief.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

They were quickly tiring of the format of radio comedy shows of the time which included music, sketches and one-liners, and hankered after something with more depth.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2017

Some hankered for u-turns in policies; some wanted an entirely new approach to governing.

From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2017

But what door, what lock, could keep out of a house what someone inside hankered for?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Under the guise of official business but with a journalist’s hankering for a lead, he interviews relatives and past neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Studies also indicate that for some people, cravings for highly palatable foods go well beyond just a normal hankering for a snack and are, in fact, signs of addictive behavior.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025

This more ’bout you hankering for your family so much that you ain’t looking at things clear.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis