Examples of “hanker” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use hanker, grouped by meaning.

verb To have a strong wish for something.

Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys. Now it was to be. — Henry Maxwell, A Sentimental Journey (1957)
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She bade him good-night and hurried down the road. Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress. She had been hankering for it. — William Somerset Maugham (1915)