hankering in English
a hankering for family life
his wife accused him of hankering after adultery
Use "hankering" in a sentence
1. She's always hankering after excitement.
2. a hankering for a wealthy lifestyle.
3. I've always had a hankering to be a doctor.
4. He had a hankering to own a car.
5. I've always had a hankering to go to China.
6. He has been hankering to spend an evening talking with you.
7. Always had a hankering to be a nurse, she did.
8. She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though.
9. I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after.
10. They all want me dead, and are hankering for my money.
11. European nations, in particular, maintained a hankering for fixed exchange rates.
12. Evolution might have played an important part in the human hankering for salt.
13. Nor does his comment upon America suggest a hopeless hankering after an actual country.
14. Where would you go if you had a hankering for some good ol'Texas barbecue?
15. From time to time we all get a hankering for something a little different.
16. It doesn't really sound like you have a hankering for anything in particular at all.
17. Synonyms for Cacoethes include craving, desire, longing, yearning, hunger, urge, hankering, appetite, thirst and wish
18. The gainers , like the losers , are a bunch of mediocre academics hankering after government privileges .
19. There is no longer a naval tradition among yachtsmen, nor any hankering after playing naval sailors.
20. Most of us have a hankering for the good things on both sides of the line.
21. Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
22. At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books.
23. Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles? Sentencedict.com
24. I do have a hankering for hearty, home-cooked meals that I can enjoy with my family after work.
25. Her hankering for the outside world is shown through a solo where she is cruelly tangled in the legs of a chair.
26. By the time the three-quarters mark of the set screeches past, you're almost hankering after some form of relief.
27. The experts also say many potential big-wig Tucson visitors have a hankering to play golf when they attend a convention.
28. Las Bajadas — you've heard heaps about it, you're hankering to visit but don't have any idea where it is? Let us point you in the right direction
29. When they get a hankering for some treats, we actually allowed them a way out into a little smaller enclosure where they could enter the market.
30. Thanks to its tropical climate, zoo-wrecking hurricanes and a greater-than-usual number of people with a hankering for fashionably exotic pets, Florida is an invasive-species mecca.
31. Noun longing, hope, desire, urge, yen (informal), hunger, appetite, ache, lust, yearning, thirst, hankering, the munchies (slang) He had a sudden Craving for a glass of brandy. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition
32. Tucker (aka lead singer, guitarist and Banjoist Catherine Doherty) and Travis (Lisa Silverman, who sings and plays guitar, mandolin and harmonica) were once a cowdyke duo--just two girls with 10-gallon hats and a hankering for a hunk of attention--and the group just kept growing.
33. Although he fully acknowledges the political nature of Duncan's poetry, Mackey misinterprets Duncan's politics as a desire to be monarchical, rather than Anarchistic, arguing that "In Pound we see a poet hankering to get into government, wanting to dictate policy, to wield decision-making power, to sit in smoke-filled rooms.