yearned for

Example Sentences

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After reading Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” she explained, she yearned for more “old-fashioned” stories centering girls and women.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 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

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

They had seemed dull and forgettable then, but Ophie yearned for one more dinner of beans and fatback with corn bread, Daddy telling stories of the rail yard as they ate.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland