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How to use hankering in a sentence

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I drove the length and breadth of the country at demon speed but I was still hankering after one more thing.
He believed in justice, for the most part, but he also had a hankering for a paisley silk waistcoat with a decent fit.
Barber, meanwhile, had been hankering after writing opera as early as 1932, though he initially avoided approaching his partner for a text.
Coffee options are tailored not just to a hankering for sweet or bitter, black or milky.
Coming from a long line of plumbers, his lifelong hankering for an acting career had somehow never seemed a realistic option.
En route to home I got a hankering for a big thick hot American Pastrami sandwich.
Paul O'Neill was not a person looking, really hankering to get back into national politics and national policy anytime soon.
Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
Fred's paternal side of the family is German and he suddenly had a hankering for these potato cakes his grandmother made him when he was a child.
No former president has had a hankering to be more than a memoirist, or reputation burnisher.
Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
You'll get a hankering to come back every year in early May when the redbuds open and the dogwoods bloom.
Now many of the newspaper's young writers are hankering after careers in journalism.
We have high ceilings, so a few Old Masters wouldn't go amiss, and I've quite a hankering for serious sculpture.
No motive was established for the crime, beyond a vague hankering for the bachelor life.
Next time you get a hankering for a beach vacation, check out this paradise.
These more serious hazards are not necessarily reasons to deny your hankering for adventure.
Our culture, he believes, is given over to unbridled curiosity and a constant hankering for the forbidden.
I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea.
No, on the contrary I have a strong hankering after decency in my womenkind.
Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.
For all that, a hankering after Beaurepaire was observable in her.
What folly to be hankering after our neighbor's chalk line and gimlet!
The Crown Prince is always in opposition to the crown or hankering after it.
She is also, I should imagine, hankering after the fleshpots.
Think I'm hankering about being smashed flatter'n a pancake, do you?
I was not by any means so sure of that, and I saw how his hankering after the vague things yet to come of those long-deferred hopes cast a shade on Ada's face.
His wife found him selfish, peevish, hankering after change, and prone to believe that he was attacked by dangerous disease when he was only catching cold.
If the pursuit is not followed up they will, after a time, yield to their inquisitive hankering, and return to the place from whence they have been frightened.
In this version, Ma Farmer has a hankering for some sweet potato pie.
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