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Meanings of yearning in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "longing"
Examples for "longing"
1
But the Great War had also unleashed a longing for individual redemption.
2
Maggots did indeed appear-squirmingalong the veil, longing to reach the meat.
3
I feel the same way, but these years have normalised the longing.
4
Themes of physical strength, activism and longing emerge from a digressional text.
5
Another writer stresses the efficacy of longing no less strongly; speaking of
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He seemed to be responding, with a hungriness that thrilled his wife.
2
From one it swells out into rounded fullness; from the other it gapes as in empty hungriness.
3
Oh, you'll die of hungriness, I expect.
4
Hungriness and sleepiness came just as regularly as if they had had nights and clocks both, to measure time by.
Usage of yearning in inglês
1
Life only in yearning; Death to crown realization; peace only in oblivion.
2
Headline of the year: is your dishwasher really yearning for the internet?
3
Jamaicans are maturing politically with a yearning for progress, change, and hope.
4
South Africans are yearning for a chance to start a new page.
5
Sensibility, as far as concerned the yearning for food, had been exhausted.
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Whimsical wish fulfilment of those yearning for some sort of past greatness?'
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It wasn't anything quite so simple as a yearning of the body.
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The yearning spoke itself in words which had been familiar since childhood:
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A physical yearning was also satisfied with the efforts of Sean O'Brien.
10
The very sight of it awakened in his breast a strange yearning.
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There was such yearning in her voice that Draken wanted to agree.
12
The same yearning, the same piteous agitation was in her attitude now.
13
Under that tranquillity Felix caught the pain and yearning in her voice.
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These savage birds appealed to all the poetry and yearning in Helena.
15
I find myself yearning for past times when car drivers wore gloves.
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The nerves of his whole yearning soul seemed centered in his fingers.
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Yearning through the time
Yearning across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common