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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'yearn to do' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express a strong desire to do something. Example: She had always yearned to visit the United States.
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Do any of them yearn to do more than chitchat and gossip?
So many people end up doing not what they yearn to do but what they feel they should do, or what pays best.
However much conditions have deteriorated, many flight attendants still love working at 30,000 feet -- or, if they have been laid off, yearn to do so again.
You yearn to do a Lillian Hellman play and the agents who control the rights turn you down, saying Ms. Hellman's will permits only "first-class, major productions".
I invoke those names, however, only to let you know how I yearn to do justice to what I experienced that night at Juliet Prowse's by-invitation-only show".
Many people who choose to retire experience a "giddiness of opportunity" and yearn to do something meaningful, said Marc Freedman, the president of Civic Ventures, a public policy group in San Francisco.
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But I did feel a yearning to do something.
Had she been yearning to do something different?
"But I had a yearning to do something different.
Studying clowning involves finding and encouraging the character within you who yearns to do stupid things.
And I do have a real yearning to do something more with it than I've done.
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