4 Sentences With "had a yen"

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He had a yen for a hot dog from Gray's Papaya, a cheesecake from Carnegie Deli, a midnight subway ride. from Vice
I Was Misinformed I had a yen for some really delicious nachos the other day, so I decided I would go to my local multiplex. Joke! from The New York Times
Luxury has always had a yen for co-opting the uniforms of the revolution, but that doesn't make the contrast between implicit value systems any less extreme — or uncomfortable. from The New York Times
Faulstich started stamp collecting as a hobby with her two young sons. In the beginning, it was a way for Faulstich and her children to do something together. Faulstich "had a 'yen,' a longing, to write" and she was not a shy person. In the beginning with her philatelic work, Faulstich wanted to know how people communicated before preprinted government stamps, before 1840.