How to Use hungry in a Sentence
hungry
adjective
- They were hungry to learn more.
- There are millions of hungry people throughout the world.
- That girl is always hungry.
- The prisoners' families were hungry for more information.
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Sometimes, a tiger is hungry enough to take a chance with a bear.
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Matthew Every,
Field & Stream,
21 Feb. 2024
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Don’t be shy; pull off the worms and put them where hungry birds and lizards can find them.
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Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2024
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The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
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Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2023
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The cell was described as damp and the children left hungry.
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Caitlin McFall,
Fox News,
14 Dec. 2022
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Fans were hungry for more , and the new season had a lot of ground to cover.
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Andy Meek,
BGR,
7 Nov. 2022
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The Tour de France Femmes was a huge hit, and a sign that the world is hungry for more women’s cycling.
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Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
5 Aug. 2022
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And with James hungry to repeat the feeling from the summer in Paris, who knows?
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Dan Woike,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2024
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Will a pitching-hungry team ignore the red flags and pay him like a starter in his prime?
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Gabe Lacques,
USA TODAY,
11 Nov. 2022
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People are hungry for good music and artists don’t want to fit in a box.
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Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
24 Feb. 2024
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This means that, to a hungry reindeer, the lichens look like blobs of black in a sea of white, even when they are buried beneath the snow.
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Gabe Allen,
Discover Magazine,
12 Dec. 2023
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This, of course, probably meant that the kids were hungry.
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Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
2 July 2024
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There are so many of them that even the hungriest predators can't eat them all.
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Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
6 May 2024
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The fox is hungry and will eat a chicken if only the two of them are ever left alone.
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Richard Malena,
Popular Mechanics,
29 Aug. 2022
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Some early draft picks this year could be the missing pieces to a hungry franchise on the rise.
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Safid Deen,
USA TODAY,
30 Dec. 2022
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This seems fair: Students who are hungry to learn and be challenged are easy to spot.
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WSJ,
29 Aug. 2022
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Coach Paul Pitts-Dilley hopes his squad keeps the three H’s in mind: humble, hungry, and healthy.
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Ethan Fuller,
BostonGlobe.com,
31 Mar. 2023
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Eleven percent of Washington is hungry for part of the year.
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Michelle Boorstein,
Washington Post,
26 Mar. 2023
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Unless that lion's very hungry and decides to kill and then store the food.
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Clark Collis,
EW.com,
8 Mar. 2023
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The bus brings food to kids who are hungry, and books to kids who are starved for something meaningful to read.
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Scott Ostler,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Nov. 2022
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A lot of viewers will be hungry for season three, then.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2023
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The Wolves are hungry to get back on track after losing two of their last three games to Basha and Hamilton.
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Richard Obert,
The Arizona Republic,
25 Nov. 2022
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Prepare to come hungry and ready to indulge in some of the best Italian cuisine in town.
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Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2023
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Bear is hungry and wants some of the honey from the bee’s tree, but the bee and its swarm are protective of their sweet treasure.
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Tegan Tigani,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Nov. 2022
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That means saying no to some young and hungry guys looking to build their name with a win over the 36-year-old legend.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
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The maps can also show gaps where low-hanging fruit can be snagged by those hungry for part of the mission.
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Tim Madden,
Forbes,
14 Oct. 2024
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The project's scale, the largest in his career to date, didn't faze Mescal, who, like his character, was hungry for a challenge.
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EW.com,
22 Oct. 2024
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