yearning
IPA: jˈɝnɪŋ
noun
- A wistful or melancholy longing.
- (Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
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Examples of "yearning" in Sentences
- They are yearning to be like a celebrity.
- The yearning woman appeared depressed and joyless.
- The naked longing and yearning in his eyes is palpable.
- Of course, my immediate yearning is to eat some eggplant.
- In his heart he felt a yearning desire to merge with the absolute.
- She acts immature, lies and does not represent the change thne next generation in yearning for ...
- The preparations lasted ten days, after which he set out with the Sultan, whose heart burned in yearning for his city whence he had been absent a whole twelvemonth.
- And all the while the dog sat and watched him, a certain yearning wistfulness in its eyes, for it looked upon him as the fire-provider, and the fire was slow in coming.
- The wrong done him by the TRANSCONTINENTAL loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then.
- Zuckerberg seems fueled by an innate fire to maximize what math, technology and psychology can propel Facebook to, but his more conscious yearning is for something outside the domain of what Facebook could bring him - the company of a girl with whom he feels comfortable being himself.