Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use hanker in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Hanker means to crave, want or desire. Example: “If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.”

Examples of hanker by meaning

verbTo crave, want or desire.

  • If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
  • She had been hankering for it.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC
  • Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys.1957 February, Henry Maxwell, “A Sentimental Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 82

More sentences with hanker

  • Gideon, with his suave charm and hankering for hotties, was on the fast track to playerhood.2014, Lisa Marie Perry, Just for Christmas Night, page 177. From the entry playerhood
  • Have a sudden hankering to get a bug while you're out shopping?2011, Jessica Speart, Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow…. From the entry beetlemania
  • "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."1904, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 2, in Dialstone Lane. From the entry hankering
  • I have had a hankering lately for cornbread.2008 August 12, Claire Ptak, “Perfect corn bread”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry cornbread
  • Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins.1996 June 28, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Acid Western”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry autodestructive
  • Those hanker after the fleshpots of the big city.1985, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel. Reprinted 2014, Random House Publishing Group, page 460. From the entry cain't
  • Now you can buy Polish sausage all ready for the pan any time you have a hankering for it.1983 December 14, Jean Tallman, “Christmas has a Polish flavor”, in St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Times edition, St. Petersburg, Fla.…. From the entry babusia
  • "I'm not hankering for the dramatic in life, but we had a run last night that would curl your hair."1903, Andy Adams, chapter 7, in The Log of a Cowboy. From the entry curl someone's hair
  • Her mother also loved gem squash, and did not hanker to be in another place when she had it on her plate.1980, Stephen Gray, Modern South African Stories, page 113. From the entry gem squash

Meaning of hanker

  1. verb To crave, want or desire.

Full definition of hanker

Questions about hanker in a sentence

How do you use hanker in a sentence?
Hanker is used as a verb. For example: “If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.”
What is a short sentence with hanker?
“She had been hankering for it.”
What does hanker mean?
Hanker means to crave, want or desire.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hanker (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use hanker in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/hanker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.