Sentence examples for as I yearned from inspiring English sources

The air came hot so near the ground, gritty and thick as we flew by a cloyingly stuffed sinkhole, and as I yearned for more speed, I wished I hadn't yet solved the crime of the horse I had just stolen from the Elizabeth Street grocery.

But I still spent hours with it in the backyard, with imaginary robots, as I frequently worked the controls, struggling to hold the rudder straight while buffeted by the force of winds and weather as I yearned to break free of gravity, imagining myself in space.

In his poem, Xi draws parallels between Jiao's career and his own: "As I yearn for you one night after another/ Your heart and mine are cleansed together/ The road ahead remains hazy and narrow/ So let's stay upright wherever we come and go/ In our respective local stints in office/ Determined are we to benefit the populace".

Through it all, I did "write," as I'd yearned to do.

As for Rita, I yearned to hate her.

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In my 20s, as a Peace Corps volunteer, I yearned for the call.

But what if carrying it out was actually more of the same, yet another grief ritual, a desire to explore the streets of Aura's childhood by executing a performance-game that she would have liked, all in order to intermingle with her city as I might yearn now to trace with my fingertips the contours of her lips, her eyes, her face?

As I'm yearning to return to my suburban bubble, a failed glamorous hero, I talk to Suleman, a volunteer from Starfish, an NGO working on the island to aid the refugees.

(As I watched the film, I yearned to see what went on between the characters just after each scene, between each transition).

I yearned for recess as if I were Ryan Gosling's character from The Notebook.