Example Sentences

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Customers, he insisted, still hankered after the noise and fury of a conventional motor.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Like everybody else Reuters spoke to in Sirte, he viewed the 2011 uprising as a foreign plot to destroy Libya and hankered for calmer times when Gaddafi lavished money on the city.

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2022

Back then, fear of centralism sprang from populists such as William Jennings Bryan, who hankered for easier credit for farmers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

“People have always hankered after a bit of peace and quiet.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2019

But what door, what lock, could keep out of a house what someone inside hankered for?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen