Sentence examples for this yearning has from inspiring English sources

This yearning has brought about positive pursuits which can be seen in the modern quest for equality: the gradual erosion of the glass ceiling, the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Overblown, perhaps, but no doubt the yearning has some relation to the bloating of the league in the interests of holding it together, mostly by worshiping at the altar of football.

Boxing, of course, can never get enough of such fights, and maybe the yearning has never been greater in an era when someone like Manny Pacquiao emerges part hero, part saviour.

More than a decade later, they are still waiting and the yearning has grown into an obsession which makes Arsenal's recently concluded gap between trophies look like a mere mild hankering.

That yearning has only intensified since Sept. 11.

A similar yearning has gripped the population lately, thanks to the world-conquering success of the smartphone game Pokémon Go.

In the case of Bebe Miller, who formed her company in 1985 and has been a regular figure on the New York dance scene in the ensuing years, such yearning has resulted in "A History".

Yet Mr. Byers reminds us that whether we're gripped by desire for a new planet or for another human being, that yearning has dignity and its own strange logic.

The use of rainbow flags as a sign of diversity, inclusiveness, hope and yearning has a long history.

Why then was it also mixed with disappointment, as if some deep yearning had been thwarted?

These two shows, bad though they presumably were, earned outsized reputations for folly that left behind them a haze of yearning: Having seen either or both became a badge of honor of sorts.