Sentence examples for craving for affection from inspiring English sources

Margaret's craving for affection seemed to be the reason for her ill-temper.

Bowes's chilly marriage had left her with a craving for affection, and even before she knew of her husband's death — the earl died at sea, on his way to sunny Portugal — she had taken a lover, George Gray, an entrepreneur who had amassed a fortune by dubious methods while employed by the East India Company.

Satisfy his craving for affection.

She captures the character's mix of vulnerability, vengefulness, craving for canine affection ("Let's tickle," she says to her dog) and sharp eye for hypocrisy: Atkins is at her very best when, with her fiercely challenging gaze, she attacks an acquisitive society and, specifically, city wives "in one year wasting what scarce twenty win".

Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?

"We have been craving for them.

You find yourself craving for more.

Craving for carbohydrates and sweets.

Craving for a specific food.

The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now here & now there — i.e., craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming".

Coco has Williams syndrome, a genetic condition that accounts for her angelic features and extreme craving for physical affection — qualities that leave her vulnerable to predators like Uncle Red and whoever strung him up in a tree and let the rats have at him.