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Example sentences for: yearned

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As 18 th -century British aristocrats wallowed in sugar, the working class yearned for it, creating a demand that would underlie the expansion of enormous sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and hence the slave trade.
In those days, a trembling boy who yearned to see a naked woman had to see her on the radio, and that took imagination.
I had yearned to write for this online journal, and was delighted last fall when editor Michael Kinsley gave me a shot at an article.
Were they the daughters of a clergyman who surely admired neither Carole the Cad one-time King of Romania, nor Noël Coward; but perhaps yearned for sons?