hankering for

“I suddenly got a hankering for meat. You either give me a house or pay me with your bones!”

I find myself sometimes having a lovely time, out to dinner with friends, say, and I’ll notice an insistent hankering for the dinner to be over.

Maybe they're hankering for the supposedly great economy that a Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orbán can provide.

Angelina has a hankering for something savory.

Americans for Prosperity Action said Ms. Haley is an antidote to the “toxic culture” that is bubbling on both the political left and the right and said she is the answer for the broad swath of voters hankering for a fresh face.