[ US /ˈjɝnɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /jˈɜːnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
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How To Use yearning In A Sentence

  • 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 .
  • 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.
  • And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about. Melville's stormy seas
  • My heart aches now, yearning for you to come back and hug me for the last time before you leave.
  • The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
  • We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help.
  • That had been less than a year ago, and Inger's tender heart ached for the child's obvious yearning for comfort.
  • At this moment, I have the deepest yearning. Let cloud wisher to bless with full intention, embellish your sweet dream, wish you to own a happy happy New Year!
  • After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
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