yearned for
Example Sentences
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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
That's what Newcastle fans have yearned for and now Eddie has done it.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
Sarai’s belly fluttered, and she yearned for the escape that nightfall would bring—if indeed it ever came.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
