How to Use yearning in a Sentence

yearning

noun

• So a post like Bradley’s can trigger a yearning for the past.
  — Jamie Waters, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
• As the movement evolved, a yearning for roots took hold.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• The yearning to talk to her sister through letters had been a long process.
  — al, 14 Sep. 2022
• Some 111 years later, the ghosts of the victims are said to remain in the house, yearning for justice.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
• The result is a high-octane duet with both Love and Cher belting out the yearning lyrics.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
• Lanterns gleam overhead, adding warmth to the yearning music.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• But his yearning to protect them at all cost, was worth the effort.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 19 June 2022
• Those yearning singalongs floated on the cool evening air, as the voices of fans rose to meet Rankin.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
• Because all of that striving and yearning is taken care of.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• There’s just something so yearning about the chords, lyrics, and melodies together.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
• Where there’s a yearning for content, there’s a streaming service to meet it.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Aug. 2022
• In its pages, The Fraud does not reach deep enough into Eliza to convey her seeking and her yearning, to build up a sense of what that might be.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• Oh My, is a yearning riff on the impermanence of life itself.
  — Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
• Right now, that’s one big olfactive yearning for the days of mall hangouts and baking with mom.
  — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 8 Dec. 2022
• My confused adolescent yearnings led me to study Russian for a year at the end of college.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
• But the yearning for a deep emotional bond with an animal is not.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
• The way Mitchell repeats the title with such yearning resonates with any listener who has lost a loved one.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
• Their songs had all the contradictions of the Irish diaspora — the yearning for the old sod vs. the desperate urge to break free.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• But Shellhart felt a yearning to be a performing artist again.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2023
• Together, the duo wrote songs that reflected the yearnings and the things Wynette felt were important in her life.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
• Through his photos and the writing with Charles Gaines, the book makes the case that bodybuilding is based on a yearning for the classical ideal.
  — Desmond Butler, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• Like those games between the Yankees and Red Sox, these games left anyone watching yearning for more.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• The months-long adventure also left the family yearning for a new home.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• The business lab zeroes in on the access part of the equation, offering a pathway for those yearning to work in child care.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• The result is a journey through the murky darkness of addiction, grief, yearning, and past mistakes.
  — Tess Growney, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
• But as with the human spirit writ large, our yearning for freedom never dies.
  — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
• The yearning for escapism is real, with the pandemic and a war happening.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
• These embryos are five years worth of money, stress, sadness, hope, yearning.
  — As Told To Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2024
• Still, this quiet yearning for more kept visiting Monét in her sleep.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
• Their voices join for a soulful confession of adult yearning, over George’s guitar, while Ringo plays the drums.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024