Hankering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HANKERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• feel a strong desire for or to do something
NOUN:
• a yearning
• a yearning for something or to do something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to long for

Words related to HANKERING

hanker13 hankered16 hankers14

Words that contain HANKERING

hankerings18

How to use HANKERING in a sentence

• So we pulled up anchor, not Hankering for any more such sport, and left the Hook, very glad to Hook It.
• There was no hankering for privileges or luxuries which were never enjoyed, and of which they never heard.
• What were his alternations of hope and fear, of devotion to philosophy and of hankering after the world which he had lost, we cannot tell.
• Many young geniuses have an early hankering, as Goethe had, to turn painters.
• If you have a hankering for widows, never run after one who has been in the business more than once.
• In the time of Napoleon, games were executed in this circus in imitation of the games of the ancients, for Napoleon had a great hankering to ape the Roman Caesars in everything.
• The physical distaste for meat and fermented liquors, coupled with the hankering after physical horrors, are especially feminine.
• There has been no hankering for it or for strong drink since.
• He had a sudden powerful hankering for the old life.
• In the spring of 1870, the Honduras Government, still hankering after its railway and the wealth that it was to open up, determined to try again with another loan.
• Thompson did not, and expressed no hankering for such pursuits.
• 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.
• And I used to wonder how my father could be such a strong man and never have any hankering to go up there at all! The two facts were quite incompatible.
• We were seldom separated till later, when I was a strong, rosy-cheeked girl of sixteen and he a strapping young lad, with a hankering for the sea.
• She had a brother in America and actively developed a hankering to go there and be near him.
• Please do not think for a moment that I am still hankering after Ellison, I only want a man of that type, someone, for instance, like Maxwell or Sir Edward Ward.
• He had seen men in that mood before, and he had no hankering for trouble which is vastly easier to start than it is to stop.
• The thrashing was one of the things that gave me a hankering for the West.
• Many other cases less extreme than this will readily suggest themselves, in which a hankering which cannot be fulfilled may prove itself a torture.
• The cities! Live in the cities and you can only wear yourself out hankering to do what you like.
• At least, it has not happened in the memory of man that the priest of the village had been a man hankering to get away or unworthy of his vocation.
• After the crisis of the disease had passed, the man expressed a hankering for pork and cabbage.
• Whirled in the five ways of the wheel of life, three kinds of deeds produce three kinds of birth, and these are caused by lustful hankering, each kind different in its character.
• Well, then, why had the last horse died down the canyon? Casey decided that he would go and see, though he was not hankering for exercise that day.
• The dinghy-boat hung on its davits just there in front of the door, and for a minute I had an awful hankering to climb into it, lower away, and row off, no matter where.
• We are always hankering after untried situations and imagining greater felicity from them than they can afford.
• He had the same hankering for the university that you had, in a milder form.
• The ministering angel had no hankering to risk his charge in a street-car, so, as the distance was not great, they walked.
• I see you are hankering after it, and I confess I have done so for a long time past.
• I decided to pull out, for a strange hankering to see England and my old home again came over me.
• Still his hankering for the treasure seemed to increase with every visit.
• Alicia, who had a hankering after Confederates, herself, put the photographs in a leather-covered album at least as old as themselves, and kept them sacredly.
• The old soul has always been hankering to come to London.
• The hankering of the Spanish monarchs for further discovery was fostered by their jealousy of the Portuguese.

Similar words containing HANKER without suffix ing

hanker13 hankers14 thanker14 hankered16 hankerer15 thankers15 hankerers16 hankerings18 scrimshanker23 skrimshanker25 scrimshankers24 skrimshankers26

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