THIRST in a Sentence

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My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

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 Meanings and Examples of THIRST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thirst
 n.  sensation of dryness in the throat
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fatal secret.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
9  Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
10  His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 27
11  All the while he felt as if he were still kissing her, and yet dying of thirst for her lips.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  Atlanta was wild with excitement, pleasure and a hot thirst for vengeance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  Her tongue was furred and her throat parched as if flames had scorched it and no amount of water could assuage her thirst.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  Now, with a start of inner wonder, Lily felt that her thirst for retaliation had died out.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
15  By and by he found a comfortable spot, and there he devoured his meal, slaking his thirst at the stream.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence:
1  No matter how much water the hiker drank, she could not quench her thirst.
2  They hunger and thirst no more; all their wants are supplied, and all the uneasiness caused thereby is removed.
3  I satisfied my thirst with a glass of water.
4  When we reached the oasis, we were able to slake our thirst.
5  It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
6  The scientist thirsts after an achievement.