All 6 Uses of
yearn
in
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- A year of yearning, when rape seemed the solitary gift of life.†
Part 1yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- Because of the Thirty-Mile Woman Sixo was the only one not paralyzed by yearning for Sethe.†
Part 1
- Nothing like what they sang at Sweet Home, where yearning fashioned every note.†
Part 1
- No height was beyond her yearning neck, stretched like a finger toward his, risking everything outside the bowl just to touch his face.†
Part 1 *
- Also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere.†
Part 1
- 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.†
Part 2
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have