Sentence examples for yearner from inspiring English sources

A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.

However, old-school soul yearner Tears Always Win and the lovely Emeli Sandé co-write 101 sound genuinely intimate.

I'm not a yearner for the past by nature, but maintain a secret fondness for a different baseball moment a hard single up the right-field side with a man aboard, the baserunner and the relayed white ball now converging on third, and the fractional moment in which we await the call.

But recently the sad, singular life of the man who created Peter has snatched a sliver of the media spotlight, thanks to the movie "Finding Neverland," a gauzy biography of Barrie starring Johnny Depp, in his winsome pallor, as the novelist, playwright and lifelong yearner after a youthful idyll.

He's not a utopian yearner like Musiq, just a guy on the make.

The rub is that Mr. Followhill still sounds a lot less convincing as a yearner than as a cad: "Be Somebody" feels halfhearted while "Use Somebody" rings true.