Modifying Another Word

• extremely: When I had climbed high into the mountains I felt extremely thirsty.

• very: The sun is getting hotter, making you very thirsty.

• too: Read more | Healthy Living Are our children too thirsty to think?

• quite: As I wasn't and was already quite thirsty, I gave it a miss.

• particularly: But I didn't feel particularly thirsty, nor uncomfortable with the heat, so neither of those things made much difference.

• so: Six o'clock arrived and, being so thirsty I was seeing cups of tea in the heat haze, I headed home.

Preposition: for

• knowledge: People thirsty for knowledge regarding what was really going on in Indonesia began flocking to the Web.

• blood: Swoff seems dangerous, but more due to being slightly unstable than a trained killing machine thirsty for human blood.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Avoid serving salty foods since they make people thirsty.

Modifies a noun

• traveler: A dusty, tired, thirsty traveler, far away from home, meets his cousin.

• soul: A hungry heart He will fill, a thirsty soul He will satisfy.

• land: And the parched ground shall become a watered place, and the thirsty land springs of water.

• plant: They were pleased to note that less water thirsty plants were being used where possible.

• visitor: A vine time in Rome A wine academy has opened in the Eternal City - and it caters to thirsty visitors.

• tree: If anywhere near the house you don't want thirsty trees!

Used with adjective complement

• feel: You feel yourself getting hungry, feeling thirsty, going to the toilet.

• get: By the time we arrived at Luxembourg, Molly was starting to get thirsty.

• become: Drink plenty of water, ideally before you become thirsty.

• go: I don't think that is a hard decision, 10 years is too long to go thirsty.

• grow: As time drew on the boys began to grow thirsty, and so approached a well said to have guarded by an old crone.