All 6 Uses

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I did yearn for him, but I yearned for so much more along with that body, which I must have sensed Rudy would never give me.†
Chpt 1.5

yearn = strongly desire
I did yearn for him, but I yearned for so much more along with that body, which I must have sensed Rudy would never give me.†
Chpt 1.5

yearned = strongly desired
Now in America, he was safe, a success even; his Centro de Medicina in the Bronx was thronged with the sick and the homesick yearning to go home again.†
Chpt 2.7

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Carla thought yearningly of the lush grasses and thick-limbed, vine-ladened trees around the compound back home.†
Chpt 2.8 *

yearningly = with strong desire
At moments like this when they all seemed one organism-the four girls— Sandi would get that yearning to wander off into the United States of America by herself and never come back as the second of four girls so close in age.†
Chpt 2.10

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Mamita, who yearned for her youth again, must have remembered what it was like to be young and dumb and fun-loving.†
Chpt 3.12

yearned = strongly desired

Definitions:

(1) (yearn)
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)