All 13 Uses
yearn
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- ...The thought had her so filled with yearning and excitement that the blank wall in my head slipped entirely.†
Chpt 9yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- The yearning belonged to us both; the image of their faces, one man, one child, came from both memories.†
Chpt 11 *
- At the same time, I yearned to see the boy's face for myself.†
Chpt 15yearned = strongly desired
- She yearned for the boy with an emotion so strong that it weakened my knees again.†
Chpt 17
- But this seemed hilarious to me for some reason—my stomach yearning after that one small Cheeto—and I laughed again.†
Chpt 18yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- I didn't particularly want to see anyone—besides the sick yearning to see Jared, of course—but the unpopulated tunnels, combined with the knowledge that something was being kept from me, made me edgy.†
Chpt 28
- There were conditions of the mind, too, that made a body unusable: dangerous mental addictions, malevolent yearnings, things that could not be healed and made the body unsafe to others.†
Chpt 28yearnings = strong desires
- Melanie sighed; she yearned to move toward him.†
Chpt 33yearned = strongly desired
- It wouldn't have been so hard to bear if I weren't yearning also.†
Chpt 33yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- I could feel her yearning to run—to run for pleasure rather than in fear.†
Chpt 39
- I didn't know why I had yearned after it so desperately.†
Chpt 46yearned = strongly desired
- I was already yearning to sit beside him, to hold him tight and forget this whole mess.†
Chpt 51yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here.†
Chpt 57yearned = strongly desired
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearn) have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)