Better not to yearn for impossible dreams.

The exile yearned for his home.

I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.

I feel a yearning for the university.

I yearn for the university.

Sami was still yearning for something.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West.

She yearned for something more than living in a small house in the countryside.

She yearns for her family.

Nothing can keep me from yearning for freedom.