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How to use hanker after in a sentence

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When you think about decorating a room at home, do you reach for the paint pot and brush, or hanker after a stylish roll of wallpaper?
We all watch the same TV shows, gawp at the same handful of celebrities, hanker after the same soft furnishings and hardwood floors.
We would hanker after a glass of beer and imagine propping up the bar at the Pen-y-Gwryd.
As a child of the 60s and 70s I still hanker after the music of my youth but my children's musical tastes have turned me on to current great Australian bands.
With only 30 bedrooms, each stylishly decorated and furnished, this aristocratic hideaway is the perfect retreat for those who hanker after the Spanish grandee lifestyle.
Other governments hanker after grand projects that do nothing to help the poor.
After all, everyone assumes that people hanker after happiness and pleasure.
Among you are some that hanker after this world and some that desire the Hereafter.
Like General Counsel, citizens who hanker after greater access to justice want more for less.
Neither in Sweden nor in other EU countries do people hanker after another level of taxation.
On the other hand those who hanker after American-type committee proceedings will find little comfort in this Report.
And ignorant men with a wicked leaning hanker after stale and unclean fare.
But more and more urbanities are on the hunt for rural properties because they hanker after a quieter life in the country.
Enjoy skateboarding, or still hanker after giving it a go?
It's easy to glamourise the lives of criminals, hanker after their devil-may-care lifestyles.
I hanker after something simpler, more honest and direct.
He himself was too much the pragmatist to hanker after a lost country.
Parvenu peoples, like parvenu individuals, hanker after ancestors, and peoples have as little scruple in forging family trees as have individuals.
Ordinary people began to hanker after the glamour, sensuality and sophistication epitomized in the evening dress seen so often in the magical world of the movies.
For any further information, we hanker after welcoming you in our offices.
Examples from Classical Literature
I can make a living for myself and my small family, and we do not hanker after riches.
We ain't either of us had much call to hanker after the dark meat.
Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition.
I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
Oh, I was never afraid of them, believe muh, but I didn't hanker after 'em.
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