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How to use the word yearn in a Sentence?

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Democrats are panicked Betsy Johnson multi-decade grip on the governor’s office is slipping away as Christine Drazan connects with a majority of Oregon voters who yearn for change, the Democrat regime of Joe Biden, Kate Brown, Tina Kotek, and Betsy Johnson have done nothing to make Oregon safer or more prosperous. – Jesse Hunt	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The chaos that scared the others away is what makes me yearn to stay. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
I always, in my heart and soul, have cherished and nourished peace, justice, equality and democracy, i wanted to tell the story of my country loud and clear to every generation -- we should all yearn for peace. – Varatha Shanmuganathan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Peace is something all Colombians yearn for and peace means that we turn the page on the fissures that have divided us. – Ivan Duque	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion. – Ivan Duque	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I wouldn't say it made my day, and it's not what anybody would yearn for in the world of politics, but it is what it is. – Mark Sanford	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If Hillary had won, I was ready to go home, it was really shocking that someone like Donald Trump would be President of the United States. We yearn for the day of a Mitt Romney or a George Bush or someone. But anyway, that motivated me to stay now. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This alienation from Brussels makes some Germans yearn for a national party like the AFD that truly represents their own national interests. – Richard Herzinger	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We must find ways of energizing GNH in rural areas, so young people build their careers and families in our beautiful villages as mature modern men and women, and don't only yearn for the city lights. – Prime Minister Lyonchoen Tshering Tobgay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – José Ortega y Gasset	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I'm always looking for my place in life and always yearn away to somewhere else, some other time. – Czon	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I love those who yearn for the impossible. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Democrats are panicked Betsy Johnson multi-decade grip on the governor’s office is slipping away as Christine Drazan connects with a majority of Oregon voters who yearn for change, the Democrat regime of Joe Biden, Kate Brown, Tina Kotek, and Betsy Johnson have done nothing to make Oregon safer or more prosperous.

– Jesse Hunt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The chaos that scared the others away is what makes me yearn to stay.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

I always, in my heart and soul, have cherished and nourished peace, justice, equality and democracy, i wanted to tell the story of my country loud and clear to every generation -- we should all yearn for peace.

– Varatha Shanmuganathan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Peace is something all Colombians yearn for and peace means that we turn the page on the fissures that have divided us.

– Ivan Duque

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion.

– Ivan Duque

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I wouldn't say it made my day, and it's not what anybody would yearn for in the world of politics, but it is what it is.

– Mark Sanford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If Hillary had won, I was ready to go home, it was really shocking that someone like Donald Trump would be President of the United States. We yearn for the day of a Mitt Romney or a George Bush or someone. But anyway, that motivated me to stay now.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This alienation from Brussels makes some Germans yearn for a national party like the AFD that truly represents their own national interests.

– Richard Herzinger

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We must find ways of energizing GNH in rural areas, so young people build their careers and families in our beautiful villages as mature modern men and women, and don't only yearn for the city lights.

– Prime Minister Lyonchoen Tshering Tobgay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

– José Ortega y Gasset

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I'm always looking for my place in life and always yearn away to somewhere else, some other time.

– Czon

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

– Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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