"yearning that" is correct and usable in written English, and can be used to express a hope or wish for something.
For example: I lay in my room, yearning that I could fly like a bird and explore the world.
But there's also a sense of yearning that is created.
Wow, how simplified and yearning that reads now.
Ms. Callaway exudes the kind of optimism, tinged with yearning, that can't be faked.
She is watching a man in the checkout line with a look of resigned yearning that will become very familiar.
It is this meeting of sex and wildness, fury and yearning, that is the true essence of rock'n'roll.
Then there's Slumville Sunrise, another new, cantering bout of declamatory yearning that forms part of this set's climax.
The yearning that stretches – painfully and beautifully – throughout this love song feels universal but also deeply personal.
Such is the dynamic, a mix of defensive inertia and deep yearning, that makes Mr. Dinelaris's characters run.
Bulat has a singular voice, with a confident yet vulnerable tone, and she sings with an impassioned yearning that suggests the vast wilderness of her homeland.
Like no one else's, Mr. Taylor's music distills a primal American yearning that can never be completely satisfied: the dream of home sweet home.
He resurrects the awkward teenage yearning that enlivened the first "Twilight" movie, but also transforms that initial, crude hunger into something deeper.
