yearn
Example Sentences
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The song also reminded Americans what they were fighting for and captured a yearning to be home with family during the festive season.
Mr. Dalrymple cites the example of U Ottama, also called Mahatma Ottama— “a short Buddhist monk with large ears and a scar on his forehead”—who yearned for Burmese union with India.
“There’s a yearning for what many people remember as a slower pace.”
Those who made up what Ms. Gibson calls the great resistance ultimately drove the movement toward emancipation for the millions yearning to be free.
We all hold irrepressible yearnings and desires; they have driven us, across time, to engage with a spiritual world that encompasses beauty and, more importantly, our own inner lives and our connection to community.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
