Explore Yearning through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like longing or desire. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Yearning in a sentence
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Yearning meaning
A wistful or melancholy longing.
Using Yearning
- The main meaning on this page is: A wistful or melancholy longing.
- Useful related words include: longing, hungriness, desire.
- In the example corpus, yearning often appears in combinations such as: yearning for, yearning to, the yearning.
Context around Yearning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yearning
- In this selection, "yearning" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, battle, man, canadian and photoshoot stand out and add context to how "yearning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a universal yearning for a and and a yearning for it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yearning" sits close to words such as affectionately, amends and animosity, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yearning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are you yearning for panoramic vistas or eager to meander through dense forests? (13 words)
Do you have a problem with the existence of a Jewish state whose national anthem relates to Jewish yearning? (19 words)
A genuinely noble man yearning for his beloved yet holding himself at arm's length is a recipe for brilliance. (20 words)
His brief autobiography “The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression,” translated from Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker, is suffused by the same muted yearning that drove its author to drop candy from his balcony decades ago. (43 words)
For the “Femme Yearning” photoshoot, Le’s friend, a talented makeup artist studying at the London College of Design & Fashion in Hanoi, smudged on pink eyeshadow and replaced Le’s eyebrows with thin arches split in half by ruby flowers. (40 words)
In the exhibition, which is on display in Tallinn now, we examine futurism not only as an artistic style, but also as an attempt to transform the world, to offer a vision of the future and a yearning for it. (40 words)
Are you yearning for panoramic vistas or eager to meander through dense forests? (13 words)
But hey, now that Ken is self-actualized and no longer yearning after his Barbie, maybe these two could give a relationship a go? (24 words)
Do you have a problem with the existence of a Jewish state whose national anthem relates to Jewish yearning? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
The story is told from the perspective of Doug, who also wants to become a Rocket Man. Doug learns of his father's constant battle, yearning for the stars while at home and yearning for home while in space.
A genuinely noble man yearning for his beloved yet holding himself at arm's length is a recipe for brilliance.
Are you yearning for panoramic vistas or eager to meander through dense forests?
Arnold is an exquisite film-maker: she is able to make the screen feel like skin – real, splitting, desire and pain and yearning come through her films.
As it explores themes of faith, parenthood, and the unknown, is a modern ode to the inspiring and family-friendly '80s sci-fi films that captured humanity's yearning to contact whoever's out there.
A tale of gray-good Scots-Presbyterian Canada and its dowager-queen city, Toronto, at a period when it was at its grayest and goodest, the book describes the indignities of being a young Canadian yearning for the south.
But hey, now that Ken is self-actualized and no longer yearning after his Barbie, maybe these two could give a relationship a go?
Do you have a problem with the existence of a Jewish state whose national anthem relates to Jewish yearning?
For the “Femme Yearning” photoshoot, Le’s friend, a talented makeup artist studying at the London College of Design & Fashion in Hanoi, smudged on pink eyeshadow and replaced Le’s eyebrows with thin arches split in half by ruby flowers.
For those yearning for a deeper dive, students are invited to shadow me, experiencing the legislative process up close, participating as much or as little as they desire.
His brief autobiography “The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression,” translated from Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker, is suffused by the same muted yearning that drove its author to drop candy from his balcony decades ago.
However, this is not the only little one that's yearning for a phone - research by Ofcom earlier this year revealed that a fifth of three and four year olds have their own mobile device.
If you’re yearning for an accurate portrayal of car racing with surprises at every turn, this is not the for you.
In interviews collected in the book “Starting Point: 1979-1996,” Miyazaki referred to a universal “yearning for a lost world” he refused to call nostalgia, since even children experience it.
In the exhibition, which is on display in Tallinn now, we examine futurism not only as an artistic style, but also as an attempt to transform the world, to offer a vision of the future and a yearning for it.
Later, he would work for the Progress Housing Group but he says his passion for history, and a yearning for studying in higher education, never left him.
Now wait for this: in fulfilment of the yearning by Lagosians for Sanwo-Olu to “give us this day our daily bread”, the administration supported the production of about 335,000 loaves of bread under the Eko Coconut Bread initiative.
Of course, after three seasons and a feature film, one could hardly call much less unsuccessful, yet perhaps because of its quality, there’s a yearning for it to get much more recognition.
Our group had a lot of fun and it left us yearning for more as we docked our kayaks up back at the base.
Salami appealed to the government at all levels to listen to the yearning of the citizens in the discharge of their responsibilities.
Common combinations with yearning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- yearning for 87×
- yearning to 45×
- the yearning 16×
- are yearning 16×
- and yearning 13×
- been yearning 7×
- yearning of 6×
- masses yearning 6×
- is yearning 5×
- those yearning 3×