yearn

How To Use yearn In A Sentence

• How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
• Fragrances; an extoller of the banner of love and harmony; a promoter of the greatest peace among all nations and tribes; a kindler of the fire of the love of God in the hearts of the people; a runner to the place of martyrdom in the Cause of God; a yearner for every calamity in the love of Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
• 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.