How To Use Hunger In A Sentence

  • Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
  • The men never exerted themselves except when hunger prompted, or a spent magazine made the acquisition of "peltries" necessary to barter for powder and ball. The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports
  • I watched as my heart hungered for the same affection. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
  • He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
  • Hunger and poverty often compel the poor to overexploit the resources on which their own livelihoods depend.
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  • Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
  • By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
  • The explorers were faint from hunger and cold.
  •     He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable. Heron Lake
  • He will not use oil and will eat as much as he wants to avoid hunger pains. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, sensations of fullness, nausea, hunger and other perceptions were measured at baseline and again at 60-minute intervals.
  • The roast suckling pig is reason for those who crave this dish to hunger for Tuesdays, the only day they serve it.
  • The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.
  • I was constantly confronted with my own weaknesses, my hunger, my low tolerance for pain.
  • She's adamant that she'll begin an indefinite hunger strike once she reaches jail.
  • The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
  • They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat. 
  • Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
  • Your hunger decreases as you eat.
  • His head was throbbing and he was faint from hunger.
  • The accident dissolved my life into illness, weakness, pain and exhaustion, cold and hunger.
  • At the end of a dusty trip to an outlying village of skeletons, I would have ravenous hunger. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • On Feb. 20 thousands of people rallied at the university campus in the support of the hunger strikers.
  • Our menu will satisfy any hunger with options from hamburgers, pasta, seafood, steaks, and more.
  • The harpy, whose name was derived from the Greek word arpazo, ‘to seize’, was a monstrous female demon of insatiable hunger, known as temptress, seductress and tormenter of victims.
  • Questioned as to the eating of an uncertain number of buns just before lunch, the child averred, "I took them just to appetize my hunger. The Children
  • Sleep deprivation can disrupt the production of hormones that are involved in controlling hunger. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't believe that that enormous meal wasn't enough to satisfy your hunger.
  • He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas.
  • As McCourt's business thrived, he hungered for a Major League Baseball team. Inside Baseball's Debt Disaster
  • Hunger breaks stone wall.
  • This means it is likely to keep hunger at bay for longer. The Sun
  • -- Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know, I speak this in _hunger_ for bread, and not in _thirst_ for _revenge_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • The Friedman-Stricker article discusses a particular event in the liver that could trigger the hunger signal: a shift away from "oxidative metabolism" (the Krebs cycle for making energy out of anything) to direct production of glucose and ketone bodies (gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis - remember these from "diabetes is like starvation" above?). Sun Bloggers
  • By the time we settled into our beachside abode, I was in great danger of gnawing my own arm off with hunger.
  • And all the while their hunger gets worse and worse. Times, Sunday Times
  • They staged demonstrations and hunger strikes, but to little avail. Times, Sunday Times
  • No calorie counting, no hunger, no bad temper (an under-reported side-effect of Real Dieting). Jean's Knitting
  • He who lives by hope will die by hunger
  • That'll take the edge off your hunger.
  • Hunger is often the mother of crime.
  • Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
  • Throughout her life, Oprah rejected her mesomorph shaped body and revered the gods and goddesses of thinness, committing herself to battle with her hunger and her body. The Dieting Dilemma: Oprah Finally Gets It
  • Hunger will relish the plainest fare. 
  • It revolts me to know that the world spends so much money on arms when millions are dying of hunger.
  • Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
  • It is the intense hunger for soul food, soulful music, spirited dance, and wild, ecstatic, celebrative praise, whether it be voiced by the ghosts of former African slaves on Congo Square or by the choirs of old-time Black Churches, or the bands backing Second Line dancers, or the street music in dialogue with window shoppers and feast-ready patrons. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
  • A January 20 meeting will bring presbytery and Hunger Program personnel together to discuss the issue.
  • The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.
  • His goods are distrained, his children are crying with cold and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is lying, is dragged from beneath her. Sketches by Boz
  • I don't know why I'm eating more - it's not hunger, it's just greed!
  • Nearly two months ago he began a hunger strike in protest at his treatment. Times, Sunday Times
  • This shouldn't be a problem if you eat only when hungry and only enough to satisfy your hunger.
  • Our hunger for happiness books is virtually unslakable.
  • A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey 
  • The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation. David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation
  • They picked some favas to stay their hunger.
  • They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat. 
  • Your hunger decreases as you eat.
  • The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected.
  • If Americans "hungered" for a real liberal, how do you explain John McCain being within a few points in the polls? Choice Of Biden Signals Vigorous Debate With GOP On Foreign Policy, But There Are Risks
  • The noises of the camp drifted up over the grade fitfully, dreamily; some new hunger that might have been called homesickness was urging a new tone into the evening sounds. The Return of Blue Pete
  • This link points to "Weeping Sikkim," a blog that chronicles an ongoing hunger strike by the youth of Sikkim, India to demand goverment transparency and accountability regarding hydroelectric projects in Dzongu, the homeland of the Lepcha people. Boing Boing
  • A piece of bread is not enough to kill my hunger.
  • It increases the number of calories the body burns each day, including calories from bodyfat, and it blunts hunger, thereby decreasing the amount of calories taken in.
  • Last week she began a hunger strike but ended it on Friday after an emergency visit from her family. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy.
  • John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted.
  • But when the matter which fills the stomach can be regarded neither as an aliment, that is, as proper to be assimilated, nor as a tonic stimulating the nerves, the cessation of hunger is probably owing only to the secretion of the gastric juice. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis.
  • And that is a hunger that can probably never be assuaged.
  • She is not interested in neophilia, the insatiable hunger for the new that is one of the terrible afflictions of contemporary society. Victoria Miro, queen of arts
  • The President fully understands people's hunger and thirst for justice.
  • The elimination of hunger is thus the first requisite for eradicating poverty.
  • To the women on Teesside he was a heart-throb, a pin-up, while the men of Middlesbrough admired him from the outset for his passion, the hunger with which he played, even his recklessness.
  • It was fight and hunger to win that saw us take the critical moments. The Sun
  • She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
  • Moments later, I felt a horrible hunger pain shoot through my body.
  • The challenges of hunger, of poverty,[Sentencedict] of ecological crisis.
  • A piece of bread is not enough to kill my hunger.
  • People seek more balanced diets even as hunger lurks for lack of purchasing power and distributive shortcomings.
  • We hadn't eaten since yesterday and the hunger pangs were getting harder to ignore.
  • They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
  • He who lives by hope will die by hunger
  • The rich scent of flame grilled burgers made Stella salivate with hunger as they sat down in the restaurant. JUST BETWEEN US
  • He who lives by hope will die by hunger
  • So me and my younger bro were like "angsty" and "aimless" cuz we were trying to find a thing to "do" to forget this hunger. An hour and 7 minutes. non-stop, fingers work.
  • Crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels.
  • In all likelihood, the number of hungry is less than a one billion, depending on your definition of hunger, which is not to be confused with malnutrition you can be malnourished and not hungry since hunger is technically a measure of caloric intake. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • If you do feel hunger pangs, nibble on carrot, celery or cucumber sticks or sliced green peppers.
  • Then, when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast, finding there was nought upon the table, they called clamorously for the cook. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
  • The Millennium Development Goals are outlined in eight respects, including eradication of poverty and hunger; universal elementary education; gender equity and women's autonomy; reduction of children's mortality; reduction of women's mortality; and the fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), paludism (malaria) and other diseases. Top Stories - Google News
  • hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks
  • The popover is the size of a Nerf basketball and the kind of thing it is just fun to tear into and eat until it is gone, so when ordering time comes around a significant portion of your hunger is sated. Augieland:
  • I was faint with hunger.
  • We become insensitive to pain, cold, wind, homesickness, thirst, hunger.
  • It has little nutritional value but will stave off hunger pangs. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is hunger in all the places where the crop was spoilt by the flood.
  • One reason is "survivor bias"—having survived not only the bombings but homelessness, hunger and a typhoon in the immediate aftermath, the subjects may be a hardier lot than the Japanese population at large. Coal Is More Dangerous Than Nuclear
  • Especially when I read of the adventures of Russian and Polish exiles in Siberia -- men of aristocratic lineage wandering amid snow and arctic cold, sleeping on rocks or in hollow trees, and holding their own, empty-handed, against hunger and frost and their fiercer brute embodiments do I recognize a hardihood and a ferity whose wet-nurse, ages back, may well have been this gray slut of the woods. Winter Sunshine
  • But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
  • Part of what's called the dystopian genre, "Hunger Games" is set in a bleak futuristic world where the government forces teens to fight one another to the death as their parents look on, airs the battle on television and calls it a national holiday. Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit
  • An idle soul shall suffer hunger
  • They help take away hunger and add lots of nutrients and super nutrients. The Sun
  • Hunger cravings can take control and send you on an eating binge that can actually lead to weight gain!
  • He who lives by hope will die by hunger
  • The nonprofit group was established in North Carolina in 2003. The aim is to fight hunger and help rurally rural economies with labor-saving agricultural devices that can be reproduced locally.
  • I am so sated, so well fed, so over fed that I could go for at least a month without eating a morsel before feeling the true pangs of hunger.
  • That seems to be beyond the imagination and capabilities of the sweet-tempered, passive, over-educated, please-play-nice Obama staff whose Democratic-controlled congress has just stripped $12bn from a long-term food stamps program precisely at the time when more Americans than ever hunger, literally, for such assistance. Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win
  • Oddly enough, the train beggar managed to control his gnawing hunger for long enough to keep begging. It *is* heroin, right?
  • I can't believe that that enormous meal wasn't enough to satisfy your hunger.
  • Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. 
  • Hunger also spurs millions of children to drop out of school in order to scavenge for food, and those who manage to attend school despite empty bellies find it excruciatingly hard to concentrate.
  • We must ensure that the sector continues to expand, sustainably, to provide more people with food and income, especially in areas like sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, where hunger and poverty prevail.
  • The action, led by the Coalition of Workers, follows a work stoppage last December and a hunger strike by six tomato pickers two seasons ago.
  • Hunger drove her to steal.
  • The day will fall so big people, first Zhi, the labor of their bones, their body skin hunger, tough, line whisk it was chaos, so the spirit, increasing it not beneficial.
  • I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; Mark Twain's Speeches
  • Many also practised severe austerities, subjecting themselves to extremes of temperature, hunger and thirst, painful bodily distortions, and various other kinds of self-denial.
  • Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee ahungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? Matthew 25.
  • Once again, the organization reports seeing more and more people who are hungry or at risk for hunger.
  • Hunger said trying to use large rocks would have required dewatering a work zone within the river, a $3 million alternative comparied to estimated to cost of less than $500,000 for the dolosse. The News Tribune Blogs
  • This means it is likely to keep hunger at bay for longer. The Sun
  • There may be some hunger and rumbles from your stomach and intestines. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
  • Diane clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands.
  • Meanwhile, former IRA hunger striker and Old Bailey bomber Marian Price is still being quizzed about dissident republican actions by the PSNI. Queen's visit to Ireland could mark the start of a new era, says Gerry Adams
  • Of a burning hunger that only she could appease.
  • Aid agencies use the word "famine" with extreme caution, relying on a UN definition based on acute malnutrition among children under five reaching more than 30 per cent, and deaths from hunger reaching two people per 10,000. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • We used to trespass into a field and sit eating raw Brussels sprouts or rhubarb to assuage our hunger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cuban doctors treating a political dissident who's on hunger strike say he is in danger of dying despite their efforts to keep him alive.
  • Banana splits still solved acute hunger problems but gorgeous undies were forgotten for the first time.
  • Hunger, disease and civil disorder would destroy what was left of civilization.
  • She had a sandwich to stay her hunger .
  • The hunger has been there for yonks.
  • There may be some hunger and rumbles from your stomach and intestines. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
  • Hunting is usually initiated by hunger and stopped by satiation.
  • Hunger goaded him to steal a loaf of bread.
  • Officials say some detainees go on and off hunger strike from time to time.
  • Those who have followed her career since her sapphic turn in The Hunger will most likely be surprised to see her singing and dancing in 8 Women, since she usually plays very serious roles.
  • Some say love it is a hunger and endless aching need.
  • She felt faint with hunger.
  • But I'll wager that they and everyone else, from epicure to hunger activist, will soon be consulting these volumes as a quick route to erudition.
  • The sweet treat includes phenylalanine, an amino acid which stimulates a peptide hormone secreted by the brain to suppress hunger. The Sun
  • Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 According to Steph Su Reads, this is a "supposedly grislier and more gruesome" novel than Suzanne Collins 'Hunger Games. Wish List Wednesday #2: "Battle Royale"
  • Cutting the nerves to the stomach does not affect hunger.
  • The result of his immodesty has been a persistent hunger for offices that most people thought beyond his abilities. PrairiePundit
  • Quinn rode his first winner in 1981 and at 42 - hardly a geriatric in the flat racing game - he retains a hunger for winners that would shame a man half his age.
  • the insistence of their hunger
  • Already in the 1920s the president of American Tobacco realised he could interest women in cigarettes by selling them as a fat-free way to satisfy hunger. Smoke and minors
  • I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlach every day and be Chief George's klooch. ' SIWASH
  • Unclean, unkempt, clothed in rags and hunger and madness, he saw himself victorious, heroic and beautiful.
  • They see a hunger for big, high-profile investigations - and the headlines they bring - as the one constant in his case file.
  • Great news for people who have a hunger control switch that is functioning well in the brain.
  • Ballard TP, Melby CL, Camus H, Cianciulli M, Pitts J, Schmidt S, Hickey MS. Effect of resistance exercise, with or without carbohydrate supplementation, on plasma ghrelin concentrations and postexercise hunger and food intake. Odds and ends June 28, 2009 | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • While I’m sure my version would horrify a purist, I’m hoping Kate Hill of the blog of the same name and French Kitchen Adventures would find it an acceptable variation, since it was her donation to Menu for Hope 4 a handmade cassole, or cassoulet pot, with beans and recipes and her passion for the food of southwest France that made me hunger for some kind of cassoulet. Archive 2007-12-01
  • He is talking here about the thirst and hunger of the soul, a desire to know God and his pardon of our sins.
  • Pakistani university professors and lecturers held a national hunger strike on April 5 against education privatisation plans.
  • ‘Sargent hunger’ overtook the salesrooms; the pictures alone fetched [pound] 182,585, and the price records for Sargent's work and modern art in general were ‘wiped out.’
  • So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
  • The very fact they have held hundreds of dharnas, hunger-fasts and demonstrations before the Supreme Court, and have never been browbeaten by the worst of adversity, speaks of their indomitable spirit.
  • Being part of that community is knowing what a "ceilidh" is, knowing not only the history of Ireland but of our own people in this country, most of them descendants of starving millions who fled to this country to avoid death from hunger. LJWorld.com stories: News
  • It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Hunger drove her to steal.
  • Lord HASTINGS unites the Hungerford sickle with the Peverel garbe: No. 270; and the _Dacre knot_ is entwined about the Dacre escallop and the famous “ragged staff” of Beauchamp and Neville: No. 235. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  • He suggested that the information society will empower the poor, combat world hunger, ensure environmental sustainability, and blah, and blah, and blah.
  • He who lives by hope will die by hunger
  • The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
  • The gentle hunger, the fresh rite, the sensation, the facticity of tabletop dining are all captured with both precision and painterliness through a photographic preparatory stage.
  • zone_info": "huffpost. books/blog; books = 1; nickname = amy-hungerford; entry_id = 335241; black-swan-green = 1; book-marketing = 1; david-mitchell = 1; elizabeth-strout = 1; jonathan-lethem = 1; literature = 1; motherless-brooklyn = 1; professors = 1; reading = 1; textbooks = 1; university = 1; yale-university = 1", Amy Hungerford: Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter
  • When he engaged in a hunger strike, the authorities committed him to a hospital where he was force fed, involuntarily sedated, handcuffed and sometimes strapped to his bed for long periods.
  • Of longer droughts and bigger floods, and growing hunger and thirst, and things in various ways not being quite like they were. Times, Sunday Times
  • Therefore they can provoke as much hunger as any other food. Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
  • It became a journey of headaches and hunger; inedible food provided from vending machines. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. Ishmael In the Depths
  • The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.
  • A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey 
  • His heart, which had seemed all frostbound for months, melted, and that hunger for love -- home-love, mother-love -- which was, perhaps, at the very bottom of his moody complex youth, found a voice. The History of David Grieve
  • Most of the people were ground down by hunger and poverty.
  • On that fatidic 9/11 and virtually every day: 31,185 children died due to hunger and desease. Think Progress » 21 Reasons To Give Thanks
  • Over the next 24 years, the occupiers inflicted massacres, hunger, forced sterilization, and attempts at cultural annihilation on East Timor.
  • Wilner saw him changed by the hunger strike from a happy, outgoing, strongly pro-American young man to a withdrawn, cadaverous, weak figure.
  • I hunger for your touch.
  • Additional symptoms of diabetes mellitus include excessive thirst, glucosuria, polyuria, lipemia and hunger.
  • Fat not only abates hunger and satiates, but also is an important endurance exercise fuel.
  • The ship has not yet arrived, but will doubtless be here in a few moments, the bad weather having delayed her; and my luggage is all hurried down to the tender, where I should be sent, too, did I not wail with hunger. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
  • 300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike .
  • Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger.
  • After 50 missions, he was overdue for leave, but apparently hungered for combat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Demonstrations were held as a gesture of solidarity with the hunger strikers.
  • Hunger remains but one wonders how much more punishment his battered body can take. The Sun
  • CNN -- Hundreds of California prisoners remain on hunger strike in protest of what they describe as their harsh treatment, though state authorities and inmate-rights advocates differed over the numbers involved. CNN.com
  • The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
  • Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement.
  • They were having a laugh and a joke but there is still a serious hunger to get back in the studio. The Sun
  • Homeless children sniff glue to dull their hunger pains.
  • Granting leave to wear civilian clothes would have pre-empted the hunger strikes.
  • The Jail regime in crowded cells in the desert sun is so harsh that prisoners die of hunger or exhaustion. Times, Sunday Times
  • He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children.
  • Hunger constrained him to eat.

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