Definition of "yearningly" []

• With yearning; with desire; longingly. (adverb)

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• "Mr. Freeman, carrying a placard that called for an end to corporate corruption on one side and on the other observed that "heavy metal music is not a crime," decided to share his insect repellent with the officers when he heard one of them declare yearningly, "What I wouldn't give for a bottle of Off.""
• "He looked yearningly at that portion of Jan's anatomy which joins the head and shoulders."
• "Or I'm a teenager in Rome, yearningly glued to MTV in the gloomy basement den, or sneaking cigarettes on my bedroom balcony while spying on the carabinieri larking around at shift change, their Berettas hanging from the gatehouse door."