Yearns
[jə:nz]
Examples
- There is nothing more lovely, to which the heart more yearns than a free-spirited boy, gentle, brave, and generous. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then the soul of the thirsty one, in so far as he is thirsty, desires only drink; for this he yearns and tries to obtain it? Plato. The Republic.
- Don't want any one who yearns to enter a laboratory and experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The machine which exists is accepted in all its essentials: the goo-goo yearns for a somewhat smoother rotation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Haven't you seen yet, that my heart yearns to make a Christian of you? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Edited by Albert