yearn

[US]/jɜːn/
[UK]/jɜːrn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. long for, desire strongly; miss, reminisce; sympathize, show pity.

Phrases & Collocations

yearn for

yearn towards

Example Sentences

to yearn for an end to the war

They had a deep yearning for their homeland.

a nameless yearning for transcendence.

yearned instead for a home and family.

Every man yearns for sympathy in sorrow.

They yearned for his return.

He yearned for home.

He looked at her with yearning.

no fellow spirit yearned towards her.

Her heart yearned for the starving children.

yearned over the poor child's fate.

He yearned to see his family again.

Is it not in the nature of all human beings to yearn for freedom?

She yearned to go back to the south.

He felt a great yearning after his old job.

I repose my yearner in waves towards you.

Believe palingenesis, profoundly yearn encounter to you again.

New beatniks yearned to set themselves apart from their beatnik predecessors of the '50s.

Real-world Examples

The heart yearns for fusion with another, the soul yearns for righteousness.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) June 2019 Collection

This is for every kid yearning to break in.

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What's the conversation you yearn to have?

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And what the soul does is it yearns for righteousness.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) June 2019 Collection

This is a country where everyone yearns to be armed and dangerous.

Source: CNN Listening Collection April 2013

I yearned to see people like myself on screen as full humans.

Source: Celebrity Speech Compilation

That's what the heart yearns for.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) June 2019 Collection

We yearn to learn more, to seek out knowledge.

Source: Crash Course Astronomy

669. I overhear that the hearty man heartily yearns for my harness in the barn.

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Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs?

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) September 2016 Collection

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