hanker

[ US /ˈhæŋkɝ/ ]
[ UK /hˈæŋkɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. desire strongly or persistently
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How To Use hanker In A Sentence

  • If you still hanker for the cutting edge of gaming then ferret yourself away in a study with one of these beasts. Times, Sunday Times
  • However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
  • I have a hankering for some space combat again.
  • Personally, I think it is very fortuitous that this kind of hankering back and forth and subtle "adjustments" of positions this earrly is good for th candidates. McCain And Obama Battle It Out Over Supreme Court Handgun Decision
  • English blood, had a kind of hankering after it, and would almost rather have such at his board than even a true-born American; and infinitely more welcome were they than Frenchman, Spaniard, or Erema
  • You'll get a hankering to come back every year in early May when the redbuds open and the dogwoods bloom.
  • From a hankering for human interaction to contact of a more ethereal nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Sabbath in Puritan New England
  • I'm not a lawyer (never even had a teensy tiny hankering to go to law school), but a PhD student in political science.
  • She had been a freewheeler from the age of eighteen, but she had always known that she hankered for security.
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