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.
I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation.
English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
German philosophy after Kant could be summarized as hankering after the noumena, and thus as more “Platonic” than Kant. Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel
I still cannot figure out why the machine dials the Internet every 15 minutes; I've checked every program that hankers to be online, and they all insist they're guiltless.
But a hankering for privileged information was not all that drew us there. Christianity Today
I think she has always "hankered" to know us, but not having enough individuality to act for herself, she has waited for a lead before taking the plunge. The Lady of the Basement Flat
I also developed a hankering to learn Spanish in the new academic year.
If you hanker for a taste of the past and have time on your hands, try his take on the old traditional favourite of jellied brawn
And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
We all watch the same TV shows, gawp at the same handful of celebrities, hanker after the same soft furnishings and hardwood floors.
Perhaps I wanted to set his mind at rest, if he'd ever had any doubts; perhaps I wanted to have a little fun out of him for his d---- d previousness; perhaps, lad, I had a hankering to see the old place for the last time. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
Having always considered ourself an average man, we turned the pages hopefully, only to find a considerable amount of information we had never "hankered" for, and could not make use of, as, for instance, how to become the biggest "buyer" in the universe, or how a certain theatrical manager wants you to think he thinks he got on in the world Penguin Persons & Peppermints
I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
If I clean off one of the crapoires a term lifted from Lynne for their armoire where they dump crap, though she only has one crapoire and in my house there are numerous crapoires to the point of almost calling the place a crapoireteria then maybe I can try my hand at making vanilla gelato because I have a hankering for an affogato al caffe which is simply vanilla ice cream or gelato "drowned" in a couple of shots of espresso. Archive 2005-08-01
I am suggesting that the focus be on the thanker revealing natural human shortcomings and deficiencies. Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life
In fact, he was starting to feel the nervous hankering toying powerfully with his insides. VAPOR TRAIL
Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
He is cracking on in years now, in any case, and may not hanker for the grind of touring. Times, Sunday Times
Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
What did you hanker after most when you were in prison?
The stingy hankerer after what Corny called four inches of dirt was his father. A Jolly Fellowship
Thou'rt a greedy glead; -- I'se go ask Simon; but I'll warrant thou'lt be hankering after the reward, and the biggest share to thine own clutches. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
She still hankered for her homeland.
Surely some of these performers, we'd guesstimated, would hanker to wield a radical version of the ideological cannon that something called ‘country music’ regularly exploits in the interests of defense contractors and capital.
If you still hanker after him, give him one more chance. The Sun
Unfortunately, the sport's base still hankers for characters, risk, flair and a bit of biffo for good measure.
He is cracking on in years now, in any case, and may not hanker for the grind of touring. Times, Sunday Times
His principal points were that the article did not mean what it appeared to say; that if it did it was not so much an expression of policy as of a "hankering" -- ( "HANKERING. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
But as it lumbers along, you find yourself warming to them and their story, and perhaps even joining them in hankering after those halcyon days of the early 1970s.
Poor Paitoo, his colonial hankering of better days destroyed at the door of the choo. WHITE LIES
Adults, with a hankering for childish humour, will delight in his misadventures.
Yes, strange sort of a chap. Wouldn't hanker to be bunk-mates with him. CHAPTER 22
They look pretty normal and aren't hankering after a tasty morsel of human flesh. Times, Sunday Times
He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands. Emma
These more serious hazards are not necessarily reasons to deny your hankering for adventure.
I spent almost the whole day sleeping, which was decidedly lovely, and I've been hankering to play Civilization: Call to Power for a couple of days, so despite a long To Do List, that's what I'm going to do.
Next time you get a hankering for a beach vacation, check out this paradise.
He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene.
I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.
No motive was established for the crime, beyond a vague hankering for the bachelor life.
France be so kind as to order me one half a dozen tombour worked Muslin hankerchiefs, 4 Ells Book Muslin, one pound of white threads, 12 Ells of light crimson caliminco with a peice of coarse cambrick and any light wollen stuff that will answer for winter gowns, half a dozen coulourd plumes and a small Box of flowers for Miss Nabby at her request to her pappa. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
He said 't was enough prettier sight to see good cabbages a-growing; but Mis 'Brown always kind of hankered after sweet-smelling things, like roses and such. Cheerfulness as a Life Power
Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
Still hankering after shine? Times, Sunday Times
The wife is an old coquette, that is always hankering after the diversions of the town; the husband a morose rustick, that frowns and frets at the name of it. The Coverley Papers
He feels no hankering to play rounds with his former pool hall friends.
As a child of the 60s and 70s I still hanker after the music of my youth but my children's musical tastes have turned me on to current great Australian bands.
Id campaign to do that, but it sounds like hard work, and Im a bit of a scrimshanker, a mere ersatz of a campaigner.
Lately I've had a powerful hankering to get on the radio again.
If Mothersole's little crum of a Soul hankers after a piece of the Letter 89
I always had this hankering to take it further. Times, Sunday Times
Miss Hagar's pocket-hankercher and he guv me a bag made outen de skin ob a rattlesnake, an 'he put in it a rabbit's foot an' er sarpint's toof, an 'er squorerpin's tail wid a leetle dust outen de graveyard an' he sewed up de bag. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
The girls took the meal round the paddocks, this time with Bob to carry the steaming billies of tea; it gave him a chance to thank his helpers, when it was difficult to say whether the thanker or the thanked were the more embarrassed. Back to Billabong
He insists that he is no longer hankering after the leadership. Times, Sunday Times
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
It has helped that audio work gratifies not only his artistic side but also his technological-geek hankerings. 'The Glass Menagerie': Sound designer Matthew M. Nielson conjures up auditory effects
I've kind of hankered to go to see John all these years. Four Girls and a Compact
They may have hankered for love, fame, and wisdom, but what they hungered to be given was experience ” and both found that the giving famishes the craving. That Old Identity Game
He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands. — ‘Happier than I deserve.’ Emma
Anyhow, since I am otherwise entirely urban, it seems unlikely that this particular hankering is going to be satisfied in the near future. Goatscape
I always kind of hankered after the hero-stuff I saw in entertainment vids, imagined myself as a space ranger type, but I knew it wasn’t realistic. Command Decision
Over the weekend I found myself with a hankering to see lousy movies.
He was a lewd and filthy villain, a hankerer after alchemy, an astrologer and a hunter of hidden hoards, such an one as he of whom quoth the poet, Arabian nights. English
I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
Nor does his comment upon America suggest a hopeless hankering after an actual country.
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. Times, Sunday Times
-- He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands. Emma
I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power.
We all hanker after a secret seaside hotel we can call our own. Times, Sunday Times
Conservatives, "hankering" after the offices, accepted unconditionally the annexation of Texas, they were called Hunkers. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
Besides, I had to tell Graham what had kept me and, in my experience, a story that's told too often gets to be tedious to the teller and I have a hankering to write it out properly one day.
I still cannot figure out why the machine dials the Internet every 15 minutes; I've checked every program that hankers to be online, and they all insist they're guiltless.
I decided to change tack - figuratively and literally - so I re-evaluated the kitchenalia that I hanker for and hoard. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
During the BJP rule in 1991, Shaheed Com Shanker Guha Niyogi was kept in Jail for two months after having been declared "absconder" in 17 cases in one single day, although he has been attending reconciliation meeting with the officials, addressing public meeting and press conferences, etc. Archive 2006-07-01
Our ability to feed our families, have universal health care or be a vibrant nation is becoming dependent on visiting tourists with disposable incomes who have a hankering to get high.
Rubin says he has always had a hankering for public life.
Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
His use of the unclassical and perhaps anachronistic word "huckster" shows us both what he takes from and brings to Kabir's poetry, which is to allow his own poetic mind to take off from the basic message and conceptual frame of Kabir's Hindi lines, without hankering after a word-for-word fidelity. When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
a lewd and filthy villain, a hankerer after alchemy, an astrologer and a hunter of hidden hoards, such an one as he of whom quoth the poet, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Perhaps that's why so many Londoners hanker for life in the country. Times, Sunday Times
Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
Coming from a long line of plumbers, his lifelong hankering for an acting career had somehow never seemed a realistic option.
Two separate sets of friends had gone there and instructed me not to follow in their footsteps, but every time I passed the Spanish deli at Canonmills, I had a hankering to try the restaurant.
He insists that he is no longer hankering after the leadership. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps he "hankered" after the Puritan maids, and if so, deserved his reproof and the threat of annihilation. Sabbath in Puritan New England
September 20th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - Three men were arrested with huge quantity of explosives from Shankergarh area of the Allahabad district Sunday, police said. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The experts also say many potential big-wig Tucson visitors have a hankering to play golf when they attend a convention.
Alas, I always hanker for the earlier. Times, Sunday Times
I had a hankering to drive the ocean road.
So does he now hanker for the life he left behind? Hugh Muir's diary
'Non posso più fare un verso: la vena è secca, e l'ingegno è stanco' (_Lettere_, vol.v. p. 90).] [Footnote 61: During the whole period of his Roman residence, Tasso, like his father in similar circumstances, hankered after ecclesiastical honors. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
With only 30 bedrooms, each stylishly decorated and furnished, this aristocratic hideaway is the perfect retreat for those who hanker after the Spanish grandee lifestyle.
To be honest, I'm hankering to work on some of my ‘real’ writing for a bit, maybe putting out two new books using that cool new Cafe Press publishing service.
When you think about decorating a room at home, do you reach for the paint pot and brush, or hanker after a stylish roll of wallpaper?
They look pretty normal and aren't hankering after a tasty morsel of human flesh. Times, Sunday Times
I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
I have a hankering to become a Canadian, actually.
'Good enough,' says he, 'for them as likes 'em; but I don't hanker after no decorations o' that kind an ', b'gosh, I'll make yer pay fer palmin' off a damaged article on me. Side Show Studies
Part of me was hankering after the days before Fraser. Times, Sunday Times
From a hankering for human interaction to contact of a more ethereal nature. Times, Sunday Times
They're kind of hankering, pard, and, mum, if you are willin ', and ain't' fraid to trust her with us, why, we'd be mighty glad to tote her -- just for a few minutes -- over to camp. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
Anyone with a hankering for an ostrich fillet or a brochette of kangaroo but not sure where in Kerry they might get hold of such delights such check out the latest addition to dining out in Killarney.
If you still hanker after him, give him one more chance. The Sun
‘I know he had a hankering to be hands-on again,’ says McLeish.
Our culture, he believes, is given over to unbridled curiosity and a constant hankering for the forbidden.
Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
Those going to university straight from school still hanker after the rite of passage that going away to university has become. Times, Sunday Times
This really got a lot of these cocktail hankerers together in a real way.
If I clean off one of the crapoires a term lifted from Lynne for their armoire where they dump crap, though she only has one crapoire and in my house there are numerous crapoires to the point of almost calling the place a crapoireteria then maybe I can try my hand at making vanilla gelato because I have a hankering for an affogato al caffe which is simply vanilla ice cream or gelato "drowned" in a couple of shots of espresso. Archive 2005-08-01
He believed in justice, for the most part, but he also had a hankering for a paisley silk waistcoat with a decent fit.
I hankered after a floor-length brown suede coat.
They hanker after their schooldays, going to ‘back to school’ disco nights and looking up their not-very-old mates on the Friends Reunited website.
Right now it's just after 9am on the East Coast, so many of you are probably just settling in to your chairs with some hot coffee and a hankering to do something other than work.
The concrete, pebble-dashed trees under the plaque suggest that this form of community history is made up of a hankering back to a rural idyll, but one that is compromised already by the urban.
I had a hankering to resume the game of guessing songs again, although straining to hear other people's personal stereos in the gym is not only sadder than doing it on the bus but it makes you look stupid.
I am hankering after a new warm tweed or wool winter coat. Times, Sunday Times
Still hankering after shine? Times, Sunday Times
I still carry around a hankering for bread and dripping, steamed pudding, and sweet macaroni, but I know they will do me no good, so I avoid them.
I can rustle up an eight-course Indian meal after a week of cooking, my bhangra dance steps are starting to resemble the real thing, and I hanker after Shahrukh Khan rather than George Clooney. India In Chicago: A Guide To Devon Avenue
Are you hankering to increase your knowledge of lesser psychedelic bands or the maybe just dig up some information on Holland, Dozier and Hollands' ill fated seventies soul label?
So, if you have a hankering to be creative and would like to makeover your home this spring, or you have a sewing machine stashed away that you never quite got round to using then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
I'll get used to the process of course, and I'll make use of it to keep a better grip on the material, but I'm sure there will be times when I'll hanker after simpler times when I had more webspace than I could ever fill.
Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan's own Sanney Leung.
Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
Still hankering after something short, sharp and sequined? Times, Sunday Times
These were the adults who constantly hankered for more reassurance from their romantic partners. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
He had hankered after fame all his life.
Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
Gentle reader, if you have never been in battle or captured by robbers, you needn't "hanker" for the experience, but take it as you would your clothing, "second hand. Shakspere, Personal Recollections
She's always hankering after excitement.
I always had this hankering to take it further. Times, Sunday Times
Krause hankered to tear the roster apart, proving that he is the architect, the great and powerful Oz.
Barber, meanwhile, had been hankering after writing opera as early as 1932, though he initially avoided approaching his partner for a text.
Just as we crossed a little opening, Johnnie fired, the ball cutting Bear's jugular vein and also his windpipe, but the bear still seemed to have a "hankering" after me and kept coming for several yards. Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains
She did develop a terrific hankering for a crucifix, though.
No hankerer after an east wind should be without them. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
Coffee options are tailored not just to a hankering for sweet or bitter, black or milky.
Those going to university straight from school still hanker after the rite of passage that going away to university has become. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, you might live perfectly happily together but you might also hanker for your lost independence.
Part of me was hankering after the days before Fraser. Times, Sunday Times
There is no longer a naval tradition among yachtsmen, nor any hankering after playing naval sailors.
Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
The ambassador went on to suggest that one Guardian columnist hankered after "the massacre of athletes at the Munich Olympics, the hijacking of planes or the suicide bombing of civilians in shopping malls and pizza parlors" and concluded by drawing parallels between the Hamas charter and the stance of a paper which has supported Israel's right to exist since long before 1948. Ian Katz: Israeli Ambassador's Dishonest Attacks on the Guardian Miss the Point
We opted to start with two entrées with enough of each for the six of us to share - honey cauliflower because I insisted and onion bhaji because we all had a hankering for it.
They hanker for the climate, the friendly slower-paced lifestyle and lack of congestion ... and a new start at 40.
Many a Texan hankering for venison has settled for a cheeseburger.
Oh, I was never afraid of them, believe muh, but I didn't hanker after 'em. CHAPTER XI
Paul O'Neill was not a person looking, really hankering to get back into national politics and national policy anytime soon.
Thankful that she has the health, and the will to do most of the things she hankers after in life, nevertheless she is modest about her abilities.
`Do I take this spirited defence of a London canonry to mean that you're hankering for the great metropolis? ULTIMATE PRIZES
Go clear out the dishwasher, if you're still hankering for something to do. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
If it is necessary to wage wars, the world's strongest nation needs a man with abilities, not a scrimshanker with an IQ of 100 meters farm track.
I knows ye love yer gran'pap, an 'hain't a hankerin' fer 'im to be murdered. Heart of the Blue Ridge
Stockbrokers, politicians and company chairmen hanker after retail investors for the same, simple reason: they think they are chumps.
A few weeks ago I had a hankering for my old haunts and I dragged Fred over to San Francisco's version of Italy for a leisurely afternoon brunch.
I still hankered for the farm life.
The solitude appealed to her sense of freedom; she did not "hanker" after a society she had never known. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
Gunrunner, blackbirder, smuggler, pirate, pearler, or what have you, but always a scrapper from the word go, with a constant hankering to bounce his enormous fists offa somebody's conk. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
Even though I know the book takes priority, I have a real hankering to write some short stuff.
We hanker for the perfect space, but it's an unattainable goal. Times, Sunday Times
We opted to start with two entrees with enough of each for the six of us to share - honey cauliflower because I insisted and onion bhaji because we all had a hankering for it.
But there are only so many times you can sing a one-verser like "Twinkle Twinkle" before you get a hankering to mix it up a bit. Archive 2007-08-01
Quite refreshing to find a sober-headed view of contemporary marriage and relationships co-existing with an honest hankering for past social mores - and no liberal should find anything wrong with people hankering for past social mores so long as they don’t visit them on us and our transbisexual menages-a-quatre communes, obviously. Tax before marriage
Now many of the newspaper's young writers are hankering after careers in journalism.
That was when I realised that the camera had stayed in its case all the way, and that I'd missed an opportunity to grab townscape shots from which to work up pictures of the kind I am hankering to paint.
Sometimes they, they just, uh, hanker for a little competition.
Personality: what you like? what is your hobby? hanker for it.
En route to home I got a hankering for a big thick hot American Pastrami sandwich.
Frustratingly, one aspect of the dream appeared to be a hankering for restoration of parts of the past.
Fred's paternal side of the family is German and he suddenly had a hankering for these potato cakes his grandmother made him when he was a child.
The main drag for the fashion hankerer is Strand Arcade in the heart of town.
No former president has had a hankering to be more than a memoirist, or reputation burnisher.
Ef ye ain't a-hankerin 'fur me ter ride that thar filly, ez air ez bridle-wise ez ye be, jes' let's see ye kem on, an '-- hender! The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
Alas, I always hanker for the earlier. Times, Sunday Times
Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering. BEHINDLINGS
‘He was a real skiver and scrimshanker, saved by the love of a wonderful woman,’ he said.
If you hanker for a repeater that combines auto fire-power with lively handling, then the M2 is for you. Three Shotgunning Tips for Dove Hunters
Still hankering after something short, sharp and sequined? Times, Sunday Times
I have a hankering to start off the new study with a new computer.
Let him not think of its misuse, and its emptiness, and the fickleness of mankind, and the like, whereof no man thinks except through a morbidness of disposition; with thoughts like these do the most ambitious most torment themselves, when they despair of gaining the distinctions they hanker after, and in thus giving vent to their anger would fain appear wise. The Ethics
I have an unhealthy hankering for a new chair.
A pity and shame it was, but it would make him more than ever a mere priestling, ever hankering after books and trash! The Herd Boy and His Hermit
Perhaps that's why so many Londoners hanker for life in the country. Times, Sunday Times
Thirty-four, and fit again, he has a hankering to get off the rollercoaster which has been his career since he was unveiled as Rangers' big-name Scottish signing two years ago.
Much as neurosurgeons might hanker after white coats with an exceedingly long train (borne through corridors and into the operating theater by respectful junior registrars), most people would regard such a thing as perverse. Archive 2009-05-01
Domesticity is chic and desirable, and domestic bliss is what millions of women hanker for.

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