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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.
Now they don't trust him at all, and they yearn to nail him once and for all.
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
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.
Despite lawyers' renunciations of such efforts as “chimeras of ignorance and folly,’ the public continued--and continues to this day--to yearn for simplicity.