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Example sentences for: yearning

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Death of John Glenn in battle with UFO left millions yearning for life-affirming communal activity.
Paroled after seven years and with a yearning to see his daughter and loyal blond wife (Monica Potter, the apotheosis of the Ivory girl), he has the bum luck to land on a prison transport flight described--in one of those testosterone-laden lines that can be comfortably transplanted to coming attractions--as "a planeload of pure predators."
For all its obvious yearning for marketability and user-friendliness, USA Today built its circulation without resorting to tabloid sensationalism.
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.
For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his "Caliphate" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.