Example sentences for: yearnings

How can you use “yearnings” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One True Thing taps into the same yearnings as Field of Dreams (1989), only for mothers and daughters instead of fathers and sons.

  • That might have worked if his characters showed signs of having deeper yearnings, the way they do in many of Paul Mazursky's Los Angeles-set satires, so that there would be some tension between what they think they want and what they actually need.

  • Born in 1903 to parents who never married (her father, William Boothe, was already married to someone else), Clare was the repository of her socially frustrated mother's yearnings for a brilliant destiny.

  • So lyrically American you can almost hear the dissonant yearnings of Aaron Copland.

  • Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.


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