yearned in English

verb
1
have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.
she yearned for a glimpse of him
synonyms:long forpine forcravedesirewantwish forhanker forcovetlust after/forpant forhunger forburn forthirst forache foreat one's heart out forhave one's heart set onhave a yen foritch for
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "yearned" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "yearned", or refer to the context using the word "yearned" in the English Dictionary.

1. The slaves yearned for freedom.

2. He yearned for the halcyon days of his childhood.

3. HISTORY: YEARNED FOR ANSWERS TO LIFE’S BIG QUESTIONS

4. Their consumer goods are yearned for throughout the class hierarchy.

5. However, every day I yearned for my husband and child.

6. He still yearned after her, even after all these years.

7. Yearned for by everyone, the German Mark flooded our little community.

8. Yet she still yearned to breathe the empowering air of the entrepreneur.

9. 6 He yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the country.

10. Toiling under the domination of the Roman Empire, they yearned for freedom and peace.

11. His subsequent actions showed that this was no idle curiosity; he yearned to help them.

12. He also wrote illuminating criticism of poetry and yearned to alter the expression of his age.

13. He yearned for wearing a set of descent vesture in front of female schoolmates.

14. It was the one thing in all the world for which she most desperately yearned.

15. He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained, he craved to ask for more.

16. She was suffering terrible neglect, and she yearned desperately for the warmth and love of her mother.

17. Ever since he had spanked her that night in the bungalow at Moascar garrison, she'd yearned for the cane.

18. If you’re a dark brunette who has always yearned to be lighter, Bronde is the answer for you

19. She yearned to "reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused".

20. “My soul has yearned and also pined away for the courtyards of Jehovah,” states a melody of the sons of Korah.

21. Those people who lifted up arms of sensation with dolorous hearts yearned for retaining a sentence of words from God with stretching devoutness .

22. She cried Abjectly, alone in the park, arms embracing herself, a poor substitute for the child she had yearned decades to hold.

23. 21 You yearned for the obscene conduct of your youth in Egypt+ when they fondled your bosom, the breasts of your youth.

24. "Extravagant Abjections suturing of bottoming and volitional powerlessness, a mere and indeterminate power, reframes a sexual politics that only recognizes a notion of freedom approaching an infinity curvethe liberatory horizon that queer theory as too often yearned for.", GLQ: A …