THIRSTY in a Sentence

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For THIRSTY, below is one of 33 sentences:
He come with us, and ask many men who are rough and hot; these be better fellows too when they have been no more thirsty.

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 Meanings and Examples of THIRSTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thirsty
 a.  extremely desirous, feeling a need or desire to drink
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  He must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in the market-place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2  You suffer, you are hungry and thirsty; you are welcome.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
3  They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  One would say that the sun was thirsty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
5  The cake was wet; but they were hungry and thirsty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
6  Jean Valjean was both hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a place full of water where a man cannot drink.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
7  When he recovered consciousness, he was thirsty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUC...
8  Pardon, my dear Monsieur Bonacieux, if I don't stand upon ceremony," said d'Artagnan, "but nothing makes one so thirsty as want of sleep.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
9  I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  He come with us, and ask many men who are rough and hot; these be better fellows too when they have been no more thirsty.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  He felt savage and thirsty and revengeful, annoyed with himself and with everyone else.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
12  He began to feel thirsty again and he longed to be back again in the hot reeking public-house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
13  "And when we are thirsty we are also quarrelsome," added Mr. Browne.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
14  And the girl talked, easing her pain in the certitude of my sympathy; she talked as thirsty men drink.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
15  The child ate some fruit and biscuits, and being thirsty she drank a glass of wine which stood nearly filled.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  I'm so thirsty I'm almost dying for a cuppa.
2  He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
3  She was so thirsty that she drained her cup.
4  After such a long thirsty journey, the travelers drank deep of the fresh spring.
5  She was so thirsty that she drank down one glass of water after another.
6  I always keep a drink of water by my bedside in case I am thirsty in the middle of the night.
7  When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating.
8  Farmers struggling to nourish thirsty crops are digging more wells, draining centuries-old aquifers, so that the Tigris and Euphrates basins lost 144 cubic kilometres of fresh water from 2003 to 2010.