intransitive verb. : to have a strong or persistent desire : yearn —often used with for or after.

Balk in a Sentence ?

1. While my dog loves to go for walks in good weather, he will always balk if he gets the slightest whiff of rain in the air.
2. Although Martin is pretty dependable about following the prescribed routine, he tends to balk at any tasks that call for extra effort.

1. The plane nosed into the hangar.
2. On take-off he almost crashed into a hangar.
3. He found a wrecked hangar, still smoking.
4. He went into the third hangar.
5. They met for four hours at an airplane hangar in Phoenix on March 6 to start the negotiations.

A “hangar” is a large building, typically for housing aircraft. A “hanger” is something to hang clothes on.

verb desire, want, long for, hope for, crave, covet, wish for, yearn for, pine for, lust after, eat your heart out, ache for, yen for (informal), itch for, set your heart on, hunger for or after, thirst for or after In 1969 I hankered after a floor-length suede coat.

SYNONYMS FOR hankering desire, need, yearning, hunger, yen, thirst.

A hankering is a strong desire for something. If you have a hankering for pizza, you really want some pizza. This is a folksy, informal word that means about the same thing as yearning. This word is related to a sense of hanker that means to want or crave something.

1 : a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) Pandemonium erupted in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

1600, “linger in expectation;” 1640s, “have a longing or craving for,” of unknown origin. Probably from Flemish hankeren, related to Dutch hunkeren “to hanker, to long for,” which is perhaps an intensive or frequentative of Middle Dutch hangen “to hang” (see hang (v.)).

1 dialectal, British : fish parings or refuse broadly : any bits and pieces : scraps. 2 British : gadgets, gadgetry the gubbins for changing a tire all the navigational gubbins— J. L. Rhys. 3 British : a foolish or futile person : simpleton you silly gubbins.

He cited three lessons to be learnt from the economic downturn. There is a lesson to be learnt from this water shortage. It’s difficult to see learnt in a sentence . You can only dance after you have learnt to stand up.

In this page you can discover 35 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for learnt, like: unearthed, determined, taught, discovered, acquired, mastered, memorialized, studied, memorized, read and assimilated.

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Yes, learnt is in the scrabble dictionary.

Should’ is the past tense of the word ‘shall. ‘ When using the words ‘should have’ you are talking about something in the past that you ‘ought to’ or ‘might have’ done. Here are some examples: “I should have gone with you.”

Please remember that we use “has” with third person singular subject only, and since “I” is a first person singular subject we can’t use “has” with ‘I’. Instead we use “have”with first person and second person singular as well as plural subjects .