[ US /ˈθɝst/ ]
[ UK /θˈɜːst/ ]
VERB
  1. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  2. feel the need to drink
NOUN
  1. strong desire for something (not food or drink)
    a thirst for knowledge
    hunger for affection
  2. a physiological need to drink
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How To Use thirst In A Sentence

  • They were however a bit thirsty as far as fuel was concerned due to their 4 giant 4125 kilowatt motors, and never reached production.
  • See, Stuart is like all the rest of the blood thirsty criminals in D.C., … ya seel hundreds of thousands more brown people will be killed because he's arrognt enough, he's evil enough and doggonnit Satan likes him! Franken Tells Pickens To Blow it Elsewhere « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
  • Think of it as a play on European consumers' thirst and spending power. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the student's uniforms are traded for spears and war paint, the innocent boys devolve into uncontrolled, bloodthirsty hunters and ultimately, savages intent on killing the "beast".
  • In his parable of the new wine and new wineskins, Jesus told the people, ‘I am the new wine for which you are all thirsting.’
  • The soldiers died of thirst in the desert.
  • There were still flowers in plenty, pink campion, toadflax, small blue scabious, honeysuckle, and six-inch mushrooms, inedible no doubt, but the blackberries were ripe and juicy enough to quench thirst.
  • You're one of the bloodthirstier women writers I know. Cat V. Monkey - Last Tango In Paris
  • For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
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