yearner
IPA: jˈɝnɝ
noun
- someone who yearns
Examples of "yearner" in Sentences
- He was not the yearner: he was the artist, sure of his vision.
- But he is really a conservative, a yearner after the good old days.
- Jimmy says the butcher is a good yearner too, but he does it by going red in the face and trying to burst his collar with his neck.
- The Young Hungarian Nobleman, whose remittances have been stopped by the war, is reminiscent of the original yearner for the idyllic life.
- O thou yearner after the Kingdom of God! The maid-servant of God, Aseyeh, hath mentioned thy name in her letter, praising and commending thee.
- Jimmy says Faithful kept yearning to go back and help; he is a good yearner, Jimmy says, and he does it by pushing his head through the collar as far as he can stretch it, and then choking.
- It was even more to her than is the art-school to the yearner who has always believed that she has a talent for painting; for the yearner has, even as a child, been able to draw and daub and revel in the results; while for Una this was the first time in her life when her labor seemed to count for something.
- Leonard, in his 30s, can be charming enough to pass himself off as an integrated personality, and his dilemma would seem to be a familiar one -- how to choose between an alluring neurotic with a drug habit (Gwyneth Paltrow's Michelle, who lives in his building), and an attractive, earnest yearner (Vinessa Shaw's Sandra) who thinks she loves him.