Collocations for yearning - noun
ADJ.
deep, desperate, enormous, great, passionate | romantic
VERB + YEARNING
feel, have | express
PREP.
with (a) ~
He looked at her with yearning.
He looked at her with yearning.
~ after
He felt a great yearning after his old job.
He felt a great yearning after his old job.
~ for
They had a deep yearning for their homeland.
They had a deep yearning for their homeland.