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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.
- 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
- "Oh, I do want you to be happy," it began, with a yearning earnestness.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- Once he had yearned for choice.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- 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
- 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 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
yearn = strongly desire or wish
yearning = strong desire
yearning = expressing strong desire
yearned = strongly desired
yearned = strongly desired
yearning = having a strong desire
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