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How to use hankered in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hankered? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She had been a freewheeler from the age of eighteen, but she had always known that she hankered for security.
Like frightened children, they hankered to go back to where they had been safe.
More than a tradition, wine in the Languedoc is profoundly hankered in the spirit of the people and the region.
Even after the depredations of Saddam Hussein, many of those Ms Steavenson talked to still hankered after someone like him.
Yet for decades many Kenyan ethnic Somalis, whose territory covers a swathe of north-eastern Kenya, have hankered after joining their brethren.
Indefatigable in those two roles, he hankered after others, as well.
If last week didn't see the return to public ownership that Judt hankered for, it at least saw Network Rail take a stand that puts UK plc to shame and should be replicated in every boardroom across the country.
I've never hankered to play the classic roles.
Cumberland, however, hankered after the grand style.
Examples from Classical Literature
She hankered after her beautiful Freudenthal, and she dreamed of returning thither.
Cleopatra, metaphorically speaking, was a fleshpot, because the world hankered after her.
He hankered after rural doings and the rough deep speech of the shires.
We went out of the bizzness then, and have not hankered for it sinse.
And I hankered, I jest hankered, after bein' praised up as she was.
I hankered after it in my teens, and once out of them it was too late.
Pons' stomach hankered after that gastronomical satisfaction.
The more I studied him the more I hankered to know his history.
Lessons were the very last thing in the world that we hankered for.
This was the agent for whom the Government of Egypt hankered.
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