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Example sentences for: yearn

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And it's harder to yearn so unreservedly for the golden age of Victorian America if you realize that morality is like economics: There's no free lunch.
Perhaps there is a lesson or two here for those who yearn for a new Kappel-type presidential commission as some sort of panacea to make
Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.
"Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Glieberman.
The millionaire's daughter doesn't yearn for the violin virtuoso; she wants the rocker.