yearned for
Example Sentences
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After reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” she explained, she yearned for more “old-fashioned” stories centering girls and women.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
If you’ve ever yearned for your living space to smell like buttery movie theater popcorn or dill pickle juice, Bath & Body Works has you covered.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2025
There are many mothers who go to the hospital to deliver a child they love and yearned for but won’t take home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
It is the very voice the Framers yearned for engaged citizens to bring to the jury box.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025
It was the kind of suffering, after all, he’d yearned for during the last five months, since receiving Hatsue’s letter.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
