Sentence examples for something yearned for from inspiring English sources

What the critics say: "Philomena is something yearned for and lusted after by film-makers and journalists alike - a really good story.

She says: "The public scrutiny [of being the prime minister's wife] wasn't something I particularly yearned for.

Ms. Fleischman, too, yearned for something constant beyond her work.

He loved "design," but yearned for something grander and more emotional.

He had labored as a carpenter in New Jersey, but yearned for something more certain and less seasonal.

I watched these young people — because even the oldest soldiers are young — as they hopped between horrors, and yearned for something normal in the weeks and months between.

He dallied with politics and with television commentary after his 16-year career as a player came to an end, but something inside him still yearned for soccer.

Mr. Gomes's disconsolate prince could not get enough of either Odette or Odile and always yearned for something out of reach.

After the wall came down in 1989 and socialist East was swallowed up by capitalist West, a phenomenon called Ostalgie (nostalgia for the east) arose as some East Germans longed for their lost past, yearned for something bigger than the West's promises of individualistic self-fulfilment and material wellbeing.

But even Boomers, the age group you'd think was about ready to Kondo" their houses and fashionably downsize, yearned for something bigger: 26percentt wanted to upsize while only 21percentt wanted to go smaller.

But for others, especially in poor countries, online education opens the door to yearned-for opportunities.