hankering

[ UK /hˈæŋkəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhæŋkɝɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a yearning for something or to do something
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How To Use hankering In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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
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