HUNGER in a Sentence

Learn HUNGER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
142 example sentences for HUNGER, such as:
1. The boy was half dead from hunger.
2. He who lives by hope will die by hunger.
3. A baby's cry may be expressive of hunger or pain.
4. They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
5. No, her fear was not of pain or hunger or loss of love.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HUNGER
hunger
 n.  strong desire for something (not food or drink)
 v.  have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Usually the men returned when they saw that hunger at home would be held at bay for a few months longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Queer that she should feel nothing now, nothing except a weariness that shackled her limbs with heavy iron chains and a hunger that made her knees tremble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly and she gripped the carved roses under her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She was born to be pampered and waited upon, and here she was, sick and ragged, driven by hunger to hunt for food in the gardens of her neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Close to the back step of one cabin, she found a short row of radishes and hunger assaulted her suddenly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Soon Carreen and Suellen would have the insatiable hunger of typhoid convalescents.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  The rutted red roads were frozen to flintiness and hunger rode the winds through Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  Later, they would refight battles and tell children and grandchildren of pranks and forays and charges, of hunger, forced marches and wounds, but not now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  Behind those doors lay the beauty of the old days, and a sad hunger for them welled up within her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  All her life her feet had been firmly planted in common sense and the only things she had ever feared had been the things she could see, injury, hunger, poverty, loss of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
14  No, her fear was not of pain or hunger or loss of love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
15  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Cutting the nerves to the stomach does not affect hunger.
2  Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger.
3  He who lives by hope will die by hunger.
4  They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
5  The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease.
6  I can't believe that that enormous meal wasn't enough to satisfy your hunger.
7  Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
8  The troops were severely debilitated by hunger and disease.
9  Have an apple - it'll take the edge off your hunger.
10  Eventually, the hunger strikers were force-fed.
11  The boy was half dead from hunger.
12  The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.
13  A baby's cry may be expressive of hunger or pain.
14  He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
15  They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.