HUNGRY in a Sentence

hungry

 a.  feeling a need or desire to eat food

 a.  extremely desirous

1  He felt cold and stiff and hungry, and ashamed of being hungry.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII

2  The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I

3  Well, I must admit we did a bit of private looting in that corn, for we were all pretty hungry and what the General don't know won't hurt him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

4  Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents."

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

6  It needed salt badly but she was too hungry to hunt for it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

7  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

9  I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV

10  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV

11  Hers was not the only troublesome appetite at Tara, for wherever she turned hungry faces, black and white, met her eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV

12  The sight of them drove her almost to madness, for she was as hungry as they.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

13  None of us will ever be hungry or cold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

14  Strained and hungry faces, black and white, were staring at her, mutely asking her to provide food.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

15  She was bitterly cold and hungry and so fearful of what lurked in the mists about her that she tried to scream and could not.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

16  Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.

17  The hungry belly has no ears.

18  This dish will serve four hungry people.

19  In his speech, he dwelt on the plight of the sick and the hungry.

20  All this talk of food is making me hungry.

21  She was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.

22  The brain is hungry not for method but for content, especially the latter which contains generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit.

23  Living in your ivory tower at Oxford, you can't imagine what it's like to go hungry.

24  It dulls the pain, eliminates nausea, and makes you hungry for a protein laden meal.

25  She had never been cold or hungry or outcast from Society.

26  As I am still hungry, I gobble up a second sandwich.

27  They assembled in camp toward supper-time, hungry and happy; but now a difficulty arose -- hostile Indians could not break the bread of hospitality together without first making peace, and this was a simple impossibility without smoking a pipe of peace.

28  I was so hungry I had to stop two miles below here at a farm.

29  Corporate profits were up markedly, and that's leading hungry brokers to ponder yet more rises on the stock markets.

30  The reason I raven is because I'm still trying to drop some weight for climbing, and in practical terms that means a lot of going to bed hungry.