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US
/ˈjɝn/
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[ UK /jˈɜːn/ ]
[ UK /jˈɜːn/ ]
VERB
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have a desire for something or someone who is not present
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover - have affection for; feel tenderness for
- desire strongly or persistently
How To Use yearn In A Sentence
- Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
- Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this. GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney
- Do you yearn for something slightly more annoying? Times, Sunday Times
- Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
- It's one of those books that makes you yearn for the machineguns of the western front. Times, Sunday Times
- People all say the crystal-like dews are the tears shed by the stars. But do you ever know, they are also my yearning tears for you .
- We all yearn for something to happen. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet because we yearn to be seen as bold, brave and courageous, we'll take stupid risks to prove our worth.
- Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
- Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.