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- noun Plural form of
hankering .
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Examples
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Idiots walking around with checkbooks and hankerings for a blue water military ports are no good. wp200 Says:
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All hankerings are addressed note the 1,000-Year-Old Ice Cream Sandwich from David Andrews and Angelo Sosa, and recipes are marked for picnic-friendliness, healthfulness, level of difficulty and, when it's required, extra prep time. $23, runningpress.com
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Oh, I had all kinds of hankerings – to follow up the canyon beds and slosh around from pool to pool, making friends with the water-dogs and the speckly trout; to peep on the sly and watch the squirrels and rabbits and small furry things and see what they was doing and learn the secrets of their ways.
The Night-Born 2010
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It has helped that audio work gratifies not only his artistic side but also his technological-geek hankerings.
'The Glass Menagerie': Sound designer Matthew M. Nielson conjures up auditory effects 2011
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So I never mentioned my hankerings to him, or any one any more. '
The Night-Born 2010
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So there was Helen at school, but also my secret hankerings for Linda, Paula, Jenny and Fiona (also at school), and there was Juliet (one of the Northfields girls), Filomina (another one of the Northfields girls), and there was Joanne, my Older Woman.
High Street North « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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I never had uncontrollable hankerings for sweet-and-sour chicken tempura topped with chocolate sauce or deep-fried zucchini over cherry ice cream, but I did crave ice cream.
You’ll Lose the Baby Weight Dawn Meehan 2010
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I never had uncontrollable hankerings for sweet-and-sour chicken tempura topped with chocolate sauce or deep-fried zucchini over cherry ice cream, but I did crave ice cream.
You’ll Lose the Baby Weight Dawn Meehan 2010
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Witness his first hankerings for immortality, his discipline, his selflessness.
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I never had uncontrollable hankerings for sweet-and-sour chicken tempura topped with chocolate sauce or deep-fried zucchini over cherry ice cream, but I did crave ice cream.
You’ll Lose the Baby Weight Dawn Meehan 2010
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