hanker
verb (used without object)
to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
is hankering
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present progressiveof hanker (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It's not clear any party is hankering after an early test of public opinion.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
One is hankering to get to a baseball game.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
This is not something that our base is hankering to undo, and we may quietly leave it in place.’ ”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2016
The rumor that he is hankering to marry grey-haired Anita Colombo, his secretary and plane companion?
From Time Magazine Archive
Man must have fallen, fallen from some good and right state into which he was put at first, and for which he is hankering and craving now.
From Sermons on National Subjects by Charles Kingsley
