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Hanker
"Hanker" in a Sentence (11 examples)
I never hanker for a cheeseburger.
After I eat my shrimp and grits, I hanker after apple pie and sweet tea.
I began to hanker after eating an authentic pretzel.
If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
“O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
“Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.”
I objected. I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
[…] it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.
She bade him good-night and hurried down the road. Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress. She had been hankering for it.
Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys. Now it was to be.
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[…] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
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