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

"Nobody here is hankering for a tax increase, but sure, we've given it thought," a top aide conceded last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Rose is hankering for a live doll to dress, girls, so you’d better wait and see what the others say about it.”

From The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story by Thurston, I. T. (Ida Treadwell)