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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.
Here, one might yearn for some punctuation: surely the last four words cannot be considered alongside the first three.
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
The millionaire's daughter doesn't yearn for the violin virtuoso; she wants the rocker.
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.