YEARN in a Sentence

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I know that you yearn for the days of Republican rule so that you can get another tax cut for you and the rest of your rich friends.

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 Meanings and Examples of YEARN
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yearn
 v.  pain; grieve; vex; be pained or distressed; feel deep pity, sympathy, or tenderness
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Mrs. Crupp was to find linen, and to cook; every other necessary was already provided; and Mrs. Crupp expressly intimated that she should always yearn towards me as a son.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
2  That would be cruel to Ashley, but it would make him yearn for her all the more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Also, never do I yearn to strive for what is right as I yearn to acquire property.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
4  From cow after cow came the same yearning bellow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  The whole world was filled with dumb yearning.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
6  From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  He roused in the woman a wild sort of compassion and yearning, and a wild, craving physical desire.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  A strange, weary yearning, a dissatisfaction had started in her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  He had fulfilled his life-long secret yearning to get out of himself.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  "With what intense desire she wants her home," was continually on her tongue, as the truest description of a yearning which she could not suppose any schoolboy's bosom to feel more keenly.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  To be yearning for the difficult, to be weary of that offered; to care for the remote, to dislike the near; it was Wildeve's nature always.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
13  Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  I'm not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  The third man is very fat, with a round, red, sentimental nose, and he plays with his eyes turned up to the sky and a look of infinite yearning.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  I know that you yearn for the days of Republican rule so that you can get another tax cut for you and the rest of your rich friends.
2  Some people say that true lovers are one soul that is separated when it's born and those two halves will always yearn to find their way back together.
3  His anxiety was increasing with the advance of the season, and his log is a record of deep yearning to be free and active again.
4  A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.
5  He yearned for his home and family.