Sample Sentences for
yearn
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    They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.  (source)
    yearn = strongly desire or wish
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    For a moment, I yearn for something … the idea of us leaving the district … making our way in the woods … but I know I was right about not running off.  (source)
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    But something in their iron robot hearts will yearn to have lived and died as we did: on the hero's errand.  (source)
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    I don't know how much longer I can continue to keep this yearning under control.  (source)
    yearning = strong desire
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    But Lockhart's disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, irritated Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart's stupid face.  (source)
    yearned = strongly desired
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    As my father says, we might be the world's best-treated refugees, in a nice house with everything we need, but we still yearn for our homeland.  (source)
    yearn = long or wish
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    I suppose I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action.†  (source)
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    The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas.†  (source)
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    And as, in the shaded light, she moved yearningly toward him, sheathed plastically in her gown of rich velvet, he would detach gently the round arms that clung about his neck, the firm curved body that stuck gluily to his.†  (source)
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    Why, my dear, he's the most sentimental yearner in town!†  (source)
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    His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human contact.  (source)
    yearning = strong desire
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    His lips were tightly compressed and his eyes yearned beneath the fringe of hair.  (source)
    yearned = strongly desired
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    We reach the shelter of the reserves and yearn to creep in and disappear;—but instead we must turn round and plunge again into the horror.  (source)
    yearn = strongly desire
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