Example Sentences

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Nebraska: The Huskers have been hankering for a ranking and were in prove-it mode after their 12-0 start was spoiled by a dismal offensive showing at Michigan State.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2022

This will hearten the US who have been hankering after a robust verification system for years.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2015

With yearnings for an almost medieval setting, they want to repeal bigness�which some men have been hankering to do ever since the Industrial Revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the novel or romance I have been hankering after so long, written in blank verse, in the autobiographical form; the heroine, an artist woman—not a painter, mind.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Then you're in the humour to be told what you have been hankering to know so long—where Mackaye and I go at night.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas