hankering

Definition

present participle and gerund of hanker

Example Sentences

• ""[…] You don't mean," Mr. Osborne continued, gathering wrath and astonishment as the thought now first came upon him; "you don't mean that he's such a d—— fool as to be still hankering after that swindling old bankrupt's daughter? […]""
• "One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall."
• "[T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top."