Usage examples with yearn

to yearn to do sth
жа́ждать [или стреми́ться] сде́лать что-ли́бо

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She described him as kind and gentle in personal interactions, and believed he yearned for the family environment he never experienced as a child.
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The content focuses on narratives of riddles, yearning, and solemnity.
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It poetically describes someone's yearning for a loved one.
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He characterized the libretto as clever, literate and perceptive and found the score to be pulsing, wild and, when called for, yearning.
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She dances, and sings about how much she loves her husband and how much she yearns for him.
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The avenues were guarded by broken-nosed angels yearning heavenward; one showed a leprous patch where her left eye and cheek had sloughed away.
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There is not a soul who does not yearn for concord and peace.
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Although she feels more at home in this community, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion.
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I yearn, my friend, at your side to enjoy the beauty of this evening.
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However, his efforts begin to work against him, as he yearns for his own childhood dreams of marine biology.
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