The phrase "a yearning to return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a strong desire or longing to go back to a previous place, situation, or state of being.
Example: "After years of living abroad, she felt a deep yearning to return to her hometown."
Alternatives: "a desire to go back" or "a longing to revisit".
Finally published in Paris in 1722, his impressive Traité de l'harmonie (Treatise on Harmony) brought him fame at last and a yearning to return to the capital.
In an e-mail message to the news staff, Mr. Shapiro expressed a yearning to return to a hands-on role.
Now, many weeks into class, I find my state of mind oscillating between curiosity and joy at learning with my classmates, along with a yearning to return to the hospital to talk with more patients.
As the Yaruros ceased to struggle for the preservation of their tribal identity, they expressed a yearning to return to the Great Mother ruling the land of the dead and awaiting them in her paradise.
And curiously, it has reactivated in some a yearning to return to Chile, to embrace their identities as Chileans, to find roots as Mr. Rojas had been doing when he was killed.
Three factors - a yearning to return to tournament competition, a desire to be near her boyfriend, a chemical engineer who lives in Franklin Lakes, N.J., and an opportunity to play with one of her two brothers, John - prompted Austin, 26 years old, to join the New Jersey Stars for the monthlong season.
Having acquired a taste for travel and cultural enrichment, and perhaps a bizarre yearning to return to drizzle, I moved to the wonderful, historic city of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, to start my PhD.
Of course, as Walt Whitman wrote about himself, Paris contains multitudes, and most visitors go away having found just enough of what they craved to develop a lifelong yearning to return.
Only a few weeks ago, Joshua Quittner, a technology writer for Time magazine, fed the frenzy when he reported feeling a strange yearning to return to the movie's mythical planet, Pandora, the morning after he was shown just 15 minutes of the film.
Maybe the novelist Milan Kundera is right to describe nostalgia as "the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return".
