YEARN in a Sentence
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44 example sentences for YEARN, such as:
1. He yearned for his home and family.
2. The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
3. From cow after cow came the same yearning bellow.
4. A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
5. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration.
2. The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
3. From cow after cow came the same yearning bellow.
4. A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
5. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration.
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Meanings and Examples of YEARN
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yearn
v. desire strongly or persistently
v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 Mrs. Crupp was to find linen, and to cook; every other necessary was already provided; and Mrs. Crupp expressly intimated that she should always yearn towards me as a son.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
2 That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearn for her all the more.
3 Also, never do I yearn to strive for what is right as I yearn to acquire property.
4 From cow after cow came the same yearning bellow.
5 The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
6 From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
7 He roused in the woman a wild sort of compassion and yearning, and a wild, craving physical desire.
8 A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
9 He had fulfilled his life-long secret yearning to get out of himself.
10 It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration.
11 "With what intense desire she wants her home," was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
12 To be yearning for the difficult, to be weary of that offered; to care for the remote, to dislike the near; it was Wildeve's nature always.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
13 Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
14 I'm not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses.
15 The third man is very fat, with a round, red, sentimental nose, and he plays with his eyes turned up to the sky and a look of infinite yearning.
Example Sentence:
1 I know that you yearn for the days of Republican rule so that you can get another tax cut for you and the rest of your rich friends.
2 Some people say that true lovers are one soul that is separated when it's born and those two halves will always yearn to find their way back together.
3 His anxiety was increasing with the advance of the season, and his log is a record of deep yearning to be free and active again.
4 A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.
5 He yearned for his home and family.