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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:

The millionaire's daughter doesn't yearn for the violin virtuoso; she wants the rocker.
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.
Red-meat conservatives, who willfully refuse to learn from their 1995 mistakes, yearn to boot Clinton when he's down.
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.