verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
for
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When you are ready, the person you have been yearning for will enter the meadow, and approach you.
■ NOUN
return
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Although a perfect antidote to those who yearn for a return of those days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hannah yearned for a child, and felt desperately sad whenever she saw other women with their babies.
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I have always yearned to travel.
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The people yearned for peace, and the chance to rebuild their shattered lives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained, he craved to ask for more.
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I yearn for the days before I grew so big.
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No patent remedy exists for these, no chicken soup for the soul, however much we may yearn for ready comfort.
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Others may yearn for life on a more even keel but they do not feel entitled to it.
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Some who yearn for children adopt orphans, if they can afford to care for them.
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You yearn for some one to talk to.