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Definition
have a strong desire — often for something difficult or impossible to have
- He thinks he hears sobbing that seems to come from Mrs. Garner's window, but it could be anything, anyone, even a she-cat making her yearning known.Two (90% in)
- A year of yearning, when rape seemed the solitary gift of life.One (5% in)
- Because of the Thirty-Mile Woman Sixo was the only one not paralyzed by yearning for Sethe.One (15% in)
- Nothing like what they sang at Sweet Home, where yearning fashioned every note.One (24% in)
- No height was beyond her yearning neck, stretched like a finger toward his, risking everything outside the bowl just to touch his face.One (64% in)
- Also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere.One (70% in)
There are no more uses of "yearn" in Beloved.
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