yearningly

Example Sentences

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"We understand that separated people may look yearningly across borders hoping for reintegration but Kenya rejects such a yearning from being pursued by force," said Mr Kimani.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2022

Which brings me to Pine’s latest, “The Contractor,” a thriller that yearningly evokes the Bourne series while never approaching its level.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

The earlier 1990s records had been more yearningly odd and exploratory, but the five Magnetic Fields albums that followed 69 Love Songs inevitably fell under its elongated shadow.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017

She vomited that news out, mockingly, yearningly, with a shrug or with a finger pointed at the audience.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller