yearned for

Example Sentences

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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

The 1960s middle classes could not afford haute couture, but yearned for a stylish, distinctive look of their own.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

Still, I yearned for a protagonist who hits bottom, then finds a way to evolve and transcend.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

The other part of me yearned for desperate and dramatic change, to leave Fentress far behind.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly