: a tender or urgent longing
a yearning for justice
Examples of yearning in a Sentence
had a sudden yearning for something sweet
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Norwood, a wide-eyed young woman with a yearning for Hollywood success, burst into the collective consciousness over the weekend when Mel’s report from a Zurich Summit panel in Switzerland exploded online.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Hollywood kicked off this addiction to thrills — angst, yearning, passion, can’t-live-without-you fire.
—Melissa Mason, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
There is some real yearning and heartbreak in those faces!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.
—Jane Ciabattari
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Hollywood kicked off this addiction to thrills — angst, yearning, passion, can’t-live-without-you fire.
—Melissa Mason, Refinery29, 1 Oct. 2025
There is some real yearning and heartbreak in those faces!
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.
—Jane Ciabattari
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for yearning
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“Yearning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yearning. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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