yearns 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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1. The frequent flyer yearns to be grounded.

2. Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.

3. At the same time, she yearns to do more in the preaching work.

4. 29 Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.

5. Unlike you, he's not a coward and yearns to fight and die in glory.

6. It is the soul that Awakens and yearns to ascend to the Supernal World.

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8. Your soul is that part of you that yearns for meaning in life, and which seeks for something beyond this life.

9. Haj is a precious gift from the Almighty Allah and is a privilege for which a believer yearns throughout his life.

10. Arela is a seamed cardigan that yearns to join you on long walks or waits patiently to soothe you when you come home

11. But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.

12. In some cases, circumstances beyond our control, such as declining health or advancing age, may prevent us from fulfilling all that our heart yearns to do in serving God.

13. In Backwater, Ivy has an overbearing family with very clear expectations for her future, but becoming a lawyer is a long way from the historian she yearns to be

14. Like most writers, he lives a Spartan lifestyle and yearns to devote his life even more to his writing, and someday retire on the Pacific Coasthe Ejjai Invasion strikes without warning at the height of the Fifth Spacer War

15. Part of the Fell Garth Collection by Emma Wright for The Fibre Co., Arela is a seamed pullover that yearns to join you on long walks or waits patiently to soothe you when you come home

16. But one yearns for more of the chaotic bravado that drove their early work: amid dreamy harmonies and jangly guitar lines, only the Crescendoing title track and rumbling freak-out "North Parade" truly catch fire

17. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in