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.

  • Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.

  • 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.

  • Here, one might yearn for some punctuation: surely the last four words cannot be considered alongside the first three.

  • Despite lawyers' renunciations of such efforts as “chimeras of ignorance and folly,’ the public continued--and continues to this day--to yearn for simplicity.


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