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US
/ˈhəŋɡɹi/
]
[ UK /hˈʌŋɡɹi/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌŋɡɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
thirsty for information
athirst for knowledge
hungry for recognition -
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
a world full of hungry people
How To Use hungry In A Sentence
- Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
- Not feeling hungry again until about ten that night, we strolled along to the same street that had earlier been alive with culinary possibilities. Times, Sunday Times
- I long for the Monday nights before he came along when the second I got hungry I could stand by the kitchen TV watching "The Bachelorette," while whumping down a salade nicoise. Susan Orlins: Dating After Divorce: What if I Meet a Guy I Like?
- Few and far between were the desperate, overeager chat-up lines of some relationship-hungry singles.
- But I need my fish grilled and oozing with BBQ sauceJhungry valval!! Cooltwinz Diary Entry
- Judging by the way they tucked into their dinner, they must have been very hungry.
- But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, and a hero.
- Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
- I found them to be almost universally composed of ninnies and power-hungry dorks.
- I'm hungry - let's have lunch.