To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Whereas, before, my soul was full of longing after God; now my heart began to hanker after every foolish vanity.
He fancied that he heard God saying to the angels, 'This poor, simple wretch doth hanker after me, as if I had nothing to do with my mercy but to bestow it on such as he.
If you was like most women, him and me wouldn't have no compunctions about cutting, and leaving you to ways what you seem to hanker after.
I didn't hanker to be town sheriff, but I got hauled into bein'," rejoined Elisha Winslow.
Woman realises that if man’s lower nature takes him into the gutter, or even less unclean places, he will not hanker after whatever it was that attracted him when once his temptation is out of sight.
She pleaded that she was too lately from school to hanker after study, but became almost enthusiastic on the subject of music.
The Count of Montalto’s Andalusian mare happened to be the only thing, animate or inanimate, which the Duca di Casalmaggiore wanted and could not get; for he did not even hanker after promotion.
I had come to the time of life when a man wearies of drifting and begins to hanker for a calm anchorage in some snug haven of his own.
Then he begins to loathe power, which bears evil and bondage in its lap; his will is broken, and he himself begins to hankerfor the end that threatens him from afar off.
Captin Doolittle, he kept his gab a going, a hull hour, a trying to make out it warn't worthy a ginuine Yankee to hanker after the York big bugs so.
Wall, arter this, working alone grew awful tedious, and I begun to hanker to see the world.
But tu own right up, I du hanker awfully tu get off into the world agin; but, for gracious sake, don't say a word about it.
If a customer did not take a notion to the bonnet, or seemed to hanker arter something else, Miss Josephine had nothing to do but to alter her tune for another sort of a dancer.
So long as you hanker after approbation and dignity, so long as you become angry at an insult, you are with your old genius and self-conceit, and have not been accepted by the Law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hanker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ache; crave; desire; dream; envy; hanker; hunger; itch; long; lust; need; pine; sigh; thirst; yearn
