Example Sentences

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China’s Communist Party has craved military self-sufficiency since taking power in 1949.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

“He has craved and desired so long to play for a winner, play for a team that’s trying to play for a championship,” Roberts said last week.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2024

These are the games the fan base has craved, and Willard and his Terps delivered.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

But he has craved a more complex approach.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

And money she has craved from the King; and Messire Aymar de Puiseux, that was your adversary, is to give you a good horse, for that you may not walk. 

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew