hanker
verb (used without object)
to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
were hankering
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past progressiveof hanker.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But we were hankering for this other place that we’ve left, and boom, you just see it on the TV.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
After the results of a survey revealed Brooklyn Heights residents were hankering for a bakery, the neighborhood association showed L’Appartement 4F a number of storefronts on Montague Street before landing on 115.
From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2021
Or you might realize that you weren’t giving every Cathy Waterman stud in your collection sufficient ear time and yet were hankering for an Anita Ko climber.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
Not many were hankering for a big Broadway revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” as far as I can make out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
We found the sort of place the girls were hankering after, to let furnished, and we've took it for a year.
From A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
