hungry - use in sentences
Modifying Another Word
- ravenously: No food was available, not even rice, and the ravenously hungry men ate certain varieties of plants.
- chronically: Governments made a commitment at the 1996 World Food Summit to cut by half the number of chronically hungry people by 2015.
- spiritually: She knows only that in his absence she is spiritually hungry.
- desperately: I was desperately hungry and thirsty for knowledge and willing to endure anything to get it.
- permanently: A UN study last year found that 80 % were unemployed and one in five were permanently hungry.
Preposition: for
- glory: Parky's going to get tough Karl's hungry for more glory Nottingham Forest 1-0 Colchester.. .
- success: We have some formidable combinations of machinery and people, and we are very hungry for success.
- victory: But there was no question they were hungry for victory.
Infinitive complement
- succeed: The course gave him a real insight of the industry and the whole experience has fuelled his hungry to succeed even more.
Modifies a noun
- hippo: Dr. Lilian Thurman: And how did you feel, being denied these hungry, hungry hippos?
- wolf: And anyway, hungry wolves are more likely to be a nuisance than full ones, don't you think?
- lion: So the King threw Daniel into a cage filled with hungry lions...
- caterpillar: Above are similar for inclusion on hungry caterpillar where that states all.
- ghost: Please join us to celebrate the launch of Debbie Taylor's new novel, Hungry Ghosts, set on the Greek island of Crete.
- crocodile: True to form James Bond also escapes by running across the heads of the very hungry crocodiles.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I also never remember feeling hungry during the war.
- starve: Firstly there is the occasion when Esau comes home from hunting starving hungry.
- go: I would have gone hungry had there been a full roll.
- get: I get hungry, I go out, still thinking about work.
- seem: Therefore, whenever he seems hungry, just put him to the breast.
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