Sentence examples similar to Abortive yearning from inspiring English sources

Her play deals with three sisters living in rural Sligo with their drunken father and scattily eccentric gran; the Chekhovian echoes are intensified by one sister, Judith, being a librarian; a second, Rose, having an abortive fling with a visiting actor; and the third, Maud, being a student whose boyfriend yearns for Moscow.

Sexual yearning?

Yearning, exhausted lead vocals?

The yearning went global.

Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.

We're not yearning!

My yearning seems foolish.

In the yearning.

A deep yearning for something.

There have been abortive attempts so far.

I certainly experienced that yearning.