yearning

Example Sentences

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That's good news for fans who fell in love with the yearning empathy of early songs like Black Dog, Eugene and Weightless.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Ms. Peet’s portrayal, however, teases out Dianne’s yearning to be appreciated again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

But it had been a difficult three years, they added, spent yearning for the band to come back.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

And an underpinning of loneliness and suppressed yearning.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Now in America, he was safe, a success even; his Centro de Medicina in the Bronx was thronged with the sick and the homesick yearning to go home again.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez