Usage examples with yearn

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

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It poetically describes someone's yearning for a loved one.
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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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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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It's about how memory works, and yearning for and re-visiting the things that have played an important part in your life.
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Her meditations upon yearning and selfhood are said to remind us of the nuanced beauty of language.
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He yearned for a freer existence in which he could create for the sheer joy of creating.
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He was like so many, young and gifted, and yearning for a life on the stage, so he left the area.
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These people long and yearn for a change within the infrastructure, a better way of life, and a logical existence.
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She yearns for a stable traditional family life, which the living organisms around her do not even consider.
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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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