Example sentences for: yearn

How can you use “yearn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By the end of the book, Shulman has bumped up against the edges of her life, but she doesn't yearn to escape it, exactly.

  • 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.

  • The millionaire's daughter doesn't yearn for the violin virtuoso; she wants the rocker.

  • Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.

  • Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.


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