: 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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This week, Alphonse grapples with the yearning for the 2000s in UK underground rap videos.
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial will explore the many dimensions of yearning.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 21 Mar. 2025
From then on, everyone wanders around yearning for their other half.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
In Andrea Gets a Divorce, hope turns into a whole set of emotions as a countryside policewoman yearning for a promotion faces a moral quandary after accidentally killing her soon-to-be-ex in a hit-and-run accident.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial will explore the many dimensions of yearning.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 21 Mar. 2025
From then on, everyone wanders around yearning for their other half.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
In Andrea Gets a Divorce, hope turns into a whole set of emotions as a countryside policewoman yearning for a promotion faces a moral quandary after accidentally killing her soon-to-be-ex in a hit-and-run accident.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 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 5 Apr. 2025.
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