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Example sentences for: yearn

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

"Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Glieberman.
I've read the Dickens original over and over and seen all the previous adaptations, yet I didn't for an instant yearn for 19 th -century London--at least, not until the movie had ended, when I was scratching my head over why it finally seemed so un-Dickensianly miniature.
Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.
The millionaire's daughter doesn't yearn for the violin virtuoso; she wants the rocker.
Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.