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Definition

have a strong desire — often for something difficult or impossible to have

I yearn for her return.

yearn = strongly desire or wish

I yearn for more independence.

yearn = strongly desire or wish

But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

yearning = strong desire

"Oh, I do want you to be happy," it began, with a yearning earnestness.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

yearning = expressing strong desire

Once he had yearned for choice.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

yearned = strongly desired

It became a struggle to ride the bicycle as Jonas weakened from lack of food, and realized at the same time that he was encountering something he had for a long time yearned to see: hills.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

yearned = strongly desired

Again, again–and it was not the ear that heard the pulsing rhythm, it was the midriff; the wail and clang of those recurring harmonies haunted, not the mind, but the yearning bowels of compassion.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

yearning = having a strong desire

Yearning and wariness and hopefulness and love .... does Molly really see all this on Sarah's face, or is she projecting?
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
They reached again and again for a high note, yearning toward a high note, which they found at last and held— an icicle in the desert.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
'It must be nice to be in Sweden now,' he observed yearningly.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
His legs ached sickeningly and he yearned for Novril.
Stephen King -- Misery
Ah, Napoleon, I have yearned for such a man as you through all my years of planning for democracy.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
Surrounded by every fascination of love and hope, his warm heart yearned towards plain John Browdie.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
Strider, too: his heart yearns for Minas Tirith, and he will be needed there, now Boromir has fallen into evil.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin
Sometimes Mrs. Livingston feels like Yetta, with her perpetual yearning.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings—greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
What a look of yearning love it was that the mild grey eyes turned on the strong dark-eyed man!
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
She seemed to yearn, as she sang, for the mystery and comfort.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
He sounded so full of hope and yearning that it was hard to tell the truth.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones

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