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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:

Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.
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.
Despite lawyers' renunciations of such efforts as “chimeras of ignorance and folly,’ the public continued--and continues to this day--to yearn for simplicity.
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.
"Even when the catharsis we yearn for arrives, it's tinged with restraint," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Glieberman.