(v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
(v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) All lovely, logical reasons, none of which apply to me: I work from home, live in London and don't need to budget because I only hanker for tat.
(3) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(4) He seems to hanker after footholds – a dabble with Scientology has come to an end, and it seems fair to say that the experience has contributed to what he calls his "wounded position".
(5) In our apolitical age, his ideological promiscuity looks more like posturing than what it really was, a desperate hankering after the truth.
(6) Phillips, a journalist for many years before he became a full-time politician (does he still hanker to be London mayor?)
(7) McBride’s book, published almost 10 years after Brown’s death, is that hankering for more.
(8) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
(9) But what they hanker for is a left that treats Israel the way it treats any other country with such a record – as a flawed society, but not one that is a byword for evil, that is deemed a “disease” (as it was by a caller to a 2010 show on Press TV , the Iranian state broadcaster, without objection from the host, Jeremy Corbyn), whose very right to exist is held to be conditional on good behaviour, a standard not applied to any other nation on Earth.
(10) If she’d turned over the records it would have put an end to it pretty early.” Clinton’s hankering for privacy should not be confused with reticence.
(11) Squint, and you might think the Lib Dems were maintaining the equal distance between the other parties they used to hanker after.
(12) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(13) Some in our movement hanker for the days of protectionism, imagining that tariffs on imports support local jobs,” Wong says.
(14) Which would all be fine, I venture, except that few people hanker after a big tub of popcorn on a Saturday night to watch a socially engaged, left-slanting film.
(15) It had appeared that Scott was destined to resist, thereby disappointing those hankering to know more of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).
(16) Following incubation the copper ferrocyanide reaction product was amplified with 3,3'-diamino-benzidine according to Hanker et al.
(17) The sites of the antigen-antibody reaction were demonstrated by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method using the Hanker-Yates reagent as a peroxidase substrate.
(18) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
(19) He will tell the Tory right that it runs the risk of endangering the coalition's collective achievements in cutting the deficit by hankering after tax cuts for the rich, or renegotiating the European Union treaty in the wake of the Euro crisis.
(20) It was typical of Hughes to leave the Brazilian on the bench for his last game, and when he has played Robinho has only occasionally looked as impressive as his price tag, though it is hardly Hughes's fault if the Brazilian none too secretly hankers for a move back to Spain or needs a manager with a more stellar CV fully to motivate him.
Yearn
Definition:
(v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
(v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
(v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk.
(v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
(2) The therapist thus provides space for yearnings and compensatory 'counterworlds', frequently leading to a positive contact in a subsequent dialog about the wishes.
(3) I yearned for solitude; most of all, I wanted to sleep alone.
(4) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
(5) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
(6) As a Scot, I've found it hard not to compare the yearning for independence in Kashmir to the yearning for independence in Scotland.
(7) They have also retrofitted old-style nationalism for their growing populations of uprooted citizens, who harbour yearnings for belonging and community as well as material plenitude.
(8) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(9) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
(10) Cooper yearns to get back to the stage and hopes to appear in the National's new production of Racine's Phèdre next year.
(11) And what anti-immigrant opinion actually yearns for is to see fewer of these people on their high street."
(12) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
(13) To send once more a message to those yearning faces beyond our shores that says, "You matter to us.
(14) They yearn to be taken seriously as a credible, national political force.
(15) The marked increased in yearning for cardiac life support skills amongst medical and nursing staff has been a major factor in the proliferation of life support training programmes at the Centre.
(16) Her entertaining descriptions of her time spent cooking in Chendung's famous cooking school combined with her simple, concise translations of what she learned made me yearn to start cooking immediately.
(17) Because people whose entire news network is dedicated to stoking the fear, anger and passions of citizens by way of animating myths and repeated use of the word “they” – they all know that 100% accuracy is immaterial to that which the heart yearns to hear.
(18) Sue: No matter what age, what gender, everybody feels a deep heart and groin yearning for Mary.
(19) Bernie is giving voice to a yearning that is out there, and that’s going to be very hard for the political establishment to overcome.” “[Tea Party Republicans] see their life chances limited, their country deteriorating along with their hopes for their children,” she adds.
(20) The demise of traditional opposition movements has led many to look for alternative forms of struggle, and created a yearning for God-given moral lines.