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• For Sauvignon followers who crave a softer style, this asparagussy contrivance might serve.2013, Ned Halley, Best Wines in the Supermarket 2014, London; […]: Foulsham, page 107. From the entry asparagussy
• I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.2008, Peter Hall, Do You Want to Go to Jail Today?, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry bare knuckle
• As the campaign's poll-tested phrasemaking constantly reminds us, voters crave change above all else.2007 September 30, Frank Rich, “Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore?”, in New York Times. From the entry phrasemaking
• Also, having tasted the cooking of some others, I did not crave it.1981, Hack Miller, Looking back with Hack, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry kitchened
• These serve as pathetic substitutes for the love he craves but has never received.1957, Robert O Blood, Anticipating Your Marriage. From the entry unspanked
• "Though her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks.1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company. From the entry crow
• It is not a job to crave for, that scraping out of the bilges of a deepwaterman.1923, The Saturday evening post, G. Graham, page 13. From the entry deepwaterman
• He had seen the woman he craved—his woman—his mate—in the arms of another.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 195. From the entry chivalry
• And by alcoholic I mean a man whose chemistry craves alcohol and drives him resistlessly to it.1913 August, Jack London, chapter I, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 8. From the entry resistlessly
• He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry afore
• Killingsworth craved a space where he could chat with his peers without feeling as though he was intruding.2025 September 29, Christina Caron, “One Hour. No Phones. A New Way to Socialize for Gen Z.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry phone-free
• No one understands how much I crave this.2023 October 15, @lexkwondo, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2024. From the entry Roman Empire
• But it is not what I crave.2021, Savanna Redman, Refuge. From the entry rip off the bandage
• After being alone, they crave social stimulation.2018 November 7, Karl Moore, “Neither introvert nor extrovert? You need a break too”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge…. From the entry social battery
• He further impresses me with the fact that it is the only fruit tigerly enough for tigers to crave.2016, Gisèle Villeneuve, Rising Abruptly. From the entry tigerly
• Egil and his craved day-meal, and to bait their horses: goodman Thorfinn took it as if that were their due.2016, E. R. Eddison, Egil's Saga. From the entry daymeal
• Come try out these great restaurants to capture that next foodstagram shot and make all your followers crave your foodie lifestyle.2016 May, Danielle Gumina, Sara Hyland, “Appetite For Aperture”, in Locale, page 36. From the entry foodstagram
• We all just crave a little adventure and novelty."2016 July 28, “The Art of Benjamin Buttoning”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023. From the entry Benjamin Button
• Hitting everything but the entrance she craved.2009, Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex, page 78. From the entry ramrod
• She craves guatita, a dish of cow tripe in a sauce thickened by peanut butter that she serves over plantains.2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times. From the entry guatita
• Billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are known for their charitable contributions, but not all great givers crave the spotlight.2008 March 11, The Onion, 00:05 from the start, in Anonymous Hero Donates Hospital 200 Human Kidneys (Comedy; Satire), via YouTube. From the entry spotlight
• Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one thing they crave: the lulz.2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in…. From the entry lulz
• It was a distinctive name, and each craved its possession.1908 November 23, Clarissa Mackie, “A Feud and Its Finish”, in The Quincy Daily Ledger, volume 20, number 277, Quincy, Mass.: George…. From the entry Thomasina
• Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.2023 October 31, Olivia Waite, “A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels”, in The New York Times. From the entry blorbo
• It's such cross-purpose my heart craves, These guests on old Twelfth Night, Their runish, unreadable moil Of prints, the barrowed creche Awaiting thaw.2011, Marly Youmans, The Throne of Psyche. From the entry runish
• They’d befriended him because he fed them the tastiest morsels, Alce, the gilded griffin, preferred Marvel while Keythong, the agate stone one, craved DC Comics.2010, Shirin Dubbin, Dreams’ Dark Kiss, Carina Press, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN. From the entry alce
• We enjoy it as much as the next gal but crave a cookie that’s not too moist or crumbly, as applesaucy cookies often are.2009, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, “Applesauce Softies”, in Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for…. From the entry applesaucy
• One craves the excitement of being right downtown, while the other wants an up-county farmette with a swimming pool and room for a pony.2006, Patricia Kennedy, The Irreverent Guide to Real Estate: Buying, Selling and Making Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry room for a pony
• To know a gentry mort like this was the most wondrous event of her life, and she craved her approval more than she did God's.2006, Sally Watson, The Outrageous Oriel. From the entry gentry mort
• Craves for sour things, chalks and eggs, fatty people with light brown spots on the face or liver spots, moth patches on forehead and cheek.1999, R. L. Gupta, Directory of Diseases & Cures: In Homoeopathy, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry moth
• The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan.1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined…. From the entry more or less
• Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.2001, Antony Rowland, Tony Harrison and the Holocaust, page 193. From the entry mortgage
• While it doesn't give the Albanian Kosovars the independence they crave, it would afford them three years of breathing room under international protection to practice being a state.1999 March 22, Johanna McGeary, “Milosevic chooses defiance over compromise, and the military situation in Kosovo deteriorates”, in CNN. From the entry Kosovar
• So it's no accident that the "Jetsons" cartoon theme has been encouraged in Apple's descriptions of the iMac--a vaguely reminiscent, friendly retro-futurism that people seem to crave.1998 June 8, Charles Piller, “Apple Finds Its Design Footing Again With iMac”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry retro-futurism
• I know were I to pierce that hide I would undelve intestine, bolus, bile, blood, paramecia — and yet the breathing animal body bears more, which now I crave.1986, Michael Mayo, Practising angels. From the entry undelve
• Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6). From the entry fetich

Meaning of crave

1. verb To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
2. verb To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority.
3. verb To call for; to require as a course of action.

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Questions about crave in a sentence

How do you use crave in a sentence?

Crave is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.”

What is a short sentence with crave?

“to crave drugs”

What does crave mean?

Crave means to desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.