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Example sentences for: yearning

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He criticized his father for understanding too late the Iranian people's yearning for democracy, saying that this was the cause of his overthrow 20 years ago and now of the student revolt against the ayatollahs.
Probably it reflected a yearning to remain blissfully ignorant of trends in the news business for as long as was humanly possible.
The movie, directed by Michael Corrente from a script he wrote with the Farrellys, is not in the whacking, gross-out school of the brothers' other projects, but it shares with them a tender regard for the scruffy outsider, the yearning misfit.
Above all is the yearning for greatness, for acts of wondrous heroism.
Death of John Glenn in battle with UFO left millions yearning for life-affirming communal activity.