Yearn

//jɜːn//

"Yearn" in a Sentence (35 examples)

People everywhere yearn for public leaders dedicated to world peace.

Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their fulfilment would be a bitter disappointment to him. Such a desire is the desire for eternal life. If it were fulfilled, man would become thoroughly sick of living eternally, and yearn for death.

I yearn for victory.

For a pillow like this all men do yearn but that - quite frankly - is not my concern.

We yearn to go back to our native land.

I yearn for the university.

Better not to yearn for impossible dreams.

I often yearn for home.

Algerians yearn for more freedom.

You yearn to become an adult at this age.

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All I yearn for is a simple life.

I muſt do that my heart-ſtrings yern to do: but my word's paſt.

You are now before my eyes, my eyes that are ready to flow with tenderness, but cannot give relief to my gushing heart, that dictates what I am now saying, and yearns to tell you all its achings.

By morning's cheerful glow, but oftener still by evening's gentle light, the child, with a respect for the short and happy intercourse of these two sisters which forbade her to approach and say a thankful word, although she yearned to do so, followed them at a distance in their walks and rambles, […]

What his soul yearned after was control of his father's newly purchased sailing-ship.

And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he yearned toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.

But all that night his body yearned for Alec's, despite him. He called it lustful, a word easily uttered, and opposed it to his work, his family, his friends, his position in society. […] But his body would not be convinced.

Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit. I yearn to hear it.

If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.

Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?

The music, yearning like a God in pain, / She scarcely heard: […]

And Joſeph made haſte: for his bowels did yerne upon his brother: and he ſought where to weepe, and hee entred into his chamber, & wept there.

I have left your mother in the next room. Her heart yearns towards you.

Oh, it was a pretty sight to see this modest young creature, little more than a child herself, anticipating maternity, but blushing every now and then, and looking askant at her lord and master. How his very bowels yearned over her!

[…] Mr. Ratcliffe’s heart yearned toward the charming girl quite with the sensations of a father, or even of an elder brother.

But supper had cheered Tant' Sannie, who found it impossible longer to maintain that decorous silence, and whose heart yearned over the youth.

My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with ſympathy for the poor fellow’s diſtreſs,—[…]

Well, ſhe laments Sir for it, that it would yern your heart to see it: […]

It yernes me not, if men my Garments weare; / Nor care I who doth feed vpon my coſt: / Such outward things dwell not in my deſires. / But if it be a ſinne to couet Honor, / I am the moſt offending Soule aliue.

When the badger finds that the terriers yearn him in his burrow, he will stop the hole between him and the terriers; […]

Wants to sneeze and cannot do it! / Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me, / Now with rapturous torment wrings me, / Now says “Sneeze, you fool; get through it.”

Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.

"After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.

"My guess, however, is that it has because there are many people who have a yearn for sex outside their relationship but wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to do it or do it safely," Prof Schwartz added.

Also his Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden.

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