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Example sentences for: yearning

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The glory of the book--of most of Greene's books--is in the dialogue, in which all that vague spiritual yearning coalesces into candor so biting that it still has the power to shock.
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.
This is quite different from being yearning, not-successful-enough people who hope, rather than know for sure, that study will generate dramatic upward mobility for our children.
An entirely new legal order was yearning to work its way clear from the turmoil of the 1860s.
It was especially welcomed outside Europe in countries yearning for an alternative to dependence on the U.S. dollar.