: a tender or urgent longing
a yearning for justice
Examples of yearning in a Sentence
had a sudden yearning for something sweet
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Other male artists like Teddy Swims and Benson Boone, known for yearning, guitar-heavy songs featuring swelling vocals, are on the rise.
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J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 24 June 2025
Viewers praised the father's dedication and expressed their own yearning for such warmth and support.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Some who had left the South felt embarrassed by the emotional nakedness of the blues, all that yearning, and dismissed it as a backwards art.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
There’s a deep yearning and caring at work here that is the film’s idiosyncratic strength, but also may be its weakness, plausibility-wise.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 13 June 2025
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J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 24 June 2025
Viewers praised the father's dedication and expressed their own yearning for such warmth and support.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
Some who had left the South felt embarrassed by the emotional nakedness of the blues, all that yearning, and dismissed it as a backwards art.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
There’s a deep yearning and caring at work here that is the film’s idiosyncratic strength, but also may be its weakness, plausibility-wise.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for yearning
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“Yearning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yearning. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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