yearned for

Example Sentences

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This is the chance they have yearned for.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

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

Thousands of businesses across Gaza — restaurants, workshops, bakeries — yearned for a source of energy more reliable than what they had.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

The idea that the temple, wearing its own black band, grieved for the burned-down mansion, that it yearned for a grand and invisible presence, bestowed a faintly religious ambience.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan