Example Sentences

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Fans were hankering for another episode of the Bodega Boys podcast, which hadn’t released new content since November.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

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

Why, you’ve got here just in the nick of time to see some of the fun you were hankering after that first night you arrived.”

From In the Whirl of the Rising by Mitford, Bertram