yearning in English

noun
1
a feeling of intense longing for something.
he felt a yearning for the mountains
adjective
1
involving or expressing yearning.
a yearning hope
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
noun
verb

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

1. At last the yearning grew beyond control.

2. He looked at her with yearning.

3. " your huddled masses yearning to breathe free "?

4. He addresses ideals that arouse yearning transiently.

5. Gail had a yearning to be loved.

6. Real yearning for the old country.

7. Craving definition, great or eager desire; yearning

8. The heart yearning for the future is unattainable.

9. The heart yearning for the past is unattainable.

10. They had a deep yearning for their homeland.

11. Drowning means to suffocate from joy, tenderness and yearning.

12. Yearning and brilliance clasp hands and sweep along together.

13. Yearning made a warm cradle in her stomach.

14. There was a yearning look in his eyes.

15. I am yearning to see their faces in Paradise!

16. She had no great yearning to go back.

17. The yearning of man's heart is homesickness for God.

18. He had a deep yearning to return to his home town.

19. 22 Draw Close to God —“You Will Have a Yearning

20. Full of painful yearning or sorrow: an Aching heart

21. 26 There was a yearning look in his eyes.

22. He suddenly had a yearning for sunshine and people.

23. He felt a great yearning after his old job.

24. The new president has plugged into a great national yearning.

25. My timid, yearning soul Was with a splendid radiance made whole.

26. The Appoggiatura is often used to express emotional "yearning"

27. It's the achingly sentimental yearning for times that never happened.

28. He also has a yearning for a P-38 Lightning.

29. Seam combine melancholy, rage and pure plaintive yearning to devastating effect.

30. TO ALL of those yearning for solace, the Bible has words of comfort.

31. Ding lacerate halcyon, joy ripples all directions, another white Christmas a person yearning.

32. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good....

33. 22 The new president has plugged into a great national yearning.

34. Crying spells, yearning for the deceased, and abrupt mood changes may be experienced.

35. Yearning for a long enrapture you yesterday and the longing for a beautiful future.

36. I have a deep yearning to understand and relate to the criminal mind.

37. Is this not strong evidence that man has a spiritual need and yearning?

38. Yearning for a male offspring, “she prayed extendedly before Jehovah.”—1 Samuel 1:12.

39. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.

40. I'm nοt hearing the cries οf a defοrmed creature yearning tο be king.

41. Yet our yearning for justice is as urgent as our need for nourishment.

42. 5 Our territory still contains those yearning to learn what the Bible really teaches.

43. Synonyms for Appetence include appetite, drive, hunger, longing, craving, penchant, yearning, appetency, desire and inclination

44. Why employ a quitter when there are plenty of fresh job-hunters yearning for lifetime employment?

45. Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature.

46. Might a nostalgia have overtaken him, a yearning for a sweeter time just past?

47. Synonyms for Cacoethes include craving, desire, longing, yearning, hunger, urge, hankering, appetite, thirst and wish

48. Calenture is a book about compulsion, that strong kind of yearning often countered by duty

49. Beholders are, as a rule, violent, sadistic and greedy, yearning for wealth and power over others

50. The Jews have been yearning for a Messiah who can bring relief from the Roman yoke.