Sentence examples for yearned for more from inspiring English sources

Richard started his career as a maker of sweets but always yearned for more.

But Monday night belonged, in part, to Wise, who has accepted what he is in baseball but has quietly yearned for more.

Polls taken after the king's hunting trip accident in April showed that Spaniards forgave him, but most yearned for more transparency.

For years, Stacy Zoern, a Texas lawyer who lives alone and uses a 400-pound power wheelchair, yearned for more independence.

With the end of the Cold War, the European Union both quickened its pace of regional integration and yearned for more autonomy from Washington.

But all four yearned for more fulfilling work, jobs that would change not only their own lives, but those of many others.

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

After 14 years at Federal Express, Mr. Hjelm said, he had become tired of endlessly reinventing the giant company's computer systems and yearned for a more expansive role.

But despite big advances at the 2010 election, he was forced to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, handing ammunition to those on the right of the party who hated his brand of "Liberal Conservatism" and yearned for a more traditional Tory programme.

Yet Ms. Miranda said the surprise they had long yearned for now felt more like holding out for a miracle.

I slightly yearned for a bit more on the outriders, too: that lovely cavalcade of defunct and obscure marks that are glimpsed in the text and add salt to his fine index: the asterism, the dinkus and the fleuron; the austere pilcrow and the honourable diple; the breve and the manicule (shown to such excellent advantage in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa); or the caret that helps you see in the dark.