Hankering

I'm hankering after a hamburger and fries but I don't have a grill and it's not safe to go out to eat.

"[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]"

One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.

[T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.

Mr. Hall thinks he has no personal hatred of Moore; he says he even likes to talk to him, and run after him, but he has a hankering that he should be made an example of.

But there was one yet - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after.

"Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."

“It looks wrong to me. But I have a hankering to work the thing out on my own. […]”

In other words, some species of human ancestor […] not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.