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Example sentences for: yearn

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Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.
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
Here, one might yearn for some punctuation: surely the last four words cannot be considered alongside the first three.
Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.
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.