Example Sentences

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“People have been yearning for him to be arrested for a long time. It’s never been unsolved in our minds. It’s been unprosecuted.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 29, 2023

“It seems to suggest that a lot of people have been yearning to see a little romance on the screen,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2023

"We have been yearning for change," he said, still in line by mid-morning.

From Reuters • Jun. 24, 2023

How they must have been yearning to leap up from their seats and shout: “Objection, your honour. Hypocrisy!”

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2020

Ever since I parted from you at the window of your writing-room I have been yearning to speak to you.

From The House of Martha by Stockton, Frank Richard