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How to use hanker in a sentence

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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.
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?
Domesticity is chic and desirable, and domestic bliss is what millions of women hanker for.
I still hanker to return home with my family one day but my view of NZ when I was growing up in the 1970's is dead and buried.
And ignorant men with a wicked leaning hanker after stale and unclean fare.
After all, everyone assumes that people hanker after happiness and pleasure.
During twenty-two years, you forgot the Iranians, they are close to 70 millions today who hanker for liberty.
Among you are some that hanker after this world and some that desire the Hereafter.
While kids will drink this, they might hanker after something less bitter, so it's more for marmalade lovers.
Yet he can't help but reject Sweden's social idealism, and even hanker after the tormenting certainties of his youth.
On the issue of Sundays and a day of rest, I do hanker back to those lovely days and therefore supported the idea, mainly to raise the debate.
Maybe some of us hanker back to our younger days and fulfilling the role of Dennis Hopper in the film Easy Rider.
Other governments hanker after grand projects that do nothing to help the poor.
Like General Counsel, citizens who hanker after greater access to justice want more for less.
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.
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.
Schneiderlin and Jay Rodriguez still hanker for transfers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I can make a living for myself and my small family, and we do not hanker after riches.
There's days when I feel uneasy every minute and hanker for a deck underneath me.
It was characteristic of Jamie that still he did not hanker for more money.
That is not the kind of greatness of country that I hanker for very seriously.
Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition.
I hanker for a chance to cross the street, but they won't let me.
I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
I must even hanker and sigh after a something that is unattainable.
Oh, I was never afraid of them, believe muh, but I didn't hanker after 'em.
We ain't either of us had much call to hanker after the dark meat.
I was too busy to hanker for a stump speech, so I cut across his bows.
If you hanker to go to Boston, go you shall, and no thanks to me.
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