Sentence examples for only yearning from inspiring English sources

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Which of us--perhaps only yearning to be again as young and quick and capable as she--did not recall, just for a moment, the twanging thrill of an impossible romance, and then getting into all kinds of trouble with the old folks?

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Students at universities in repressed societies abroad can only yearn for such freedom.

Cartier's "Les Must" jewellery in the 1970s put the brand within reach of consumers who could only yearn for Panthère necklaces and Tank watches.

Manny, their 18-year-old hired hand, is a Westerner with the true feeling for the land that Thomas can only yearn to possess.

There is an expectation, for instance, that her success automatically entitles the world beyond the Hogwarts Express to bestow the familiar trappings of celebrity -- photographers' popping flashes, glamour to feed dreams -- as if acclaim for her writing made Ms. Rowling the same kind of public property as others might only yearn to be.

It embodied the rough-and-tumble, raw, and bare-knuckle punching slugfest brand of politics that New Yorkers are not only used to, but yearn for come election season.

BBC executives are not the only ones yearning for a more cautious approach.

And within the whimsical constructions of the songs is a voice filled not only with yearning and uncertainties but also with the confidence to air them.

At times, in songs like "Vidro e Corte" ("Glass and Cut"), he didn't need words at all, only his yearning, climbing melodies.

But only one yearning, that for love, was fully satisfied, he said, and only when he was 80 and married his fourth wife, Edith Finch, then a 52‐year‐old American.

A collective of hermits, whose fierce, at times cranky attachment to their own individual development was matched by only their yearning for fellowship, for a kind of collective fulfillment, in a permanent cycle of community and schism that launched a thousand ashrams, synagogues, dojos and schools of cuisine.

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