HUNGRY in a Sentence

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191 example sentences for HUNGRY, such as:
1. The hungry kid began to squall.
2. The hungry man devoured his dinner.
3. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest.
4. Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man.
5. None of us will ever be hungry or cold.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HUNGRY
hungry
 a.  (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
 a.  feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  He felt cold and stiff and hungry, and ashamed of being hungry.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Well, I must admit we did a bit of private looting in that corn, for we were all pretty hungry and what the General don't know won't hurt him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  It needed salt badly but she was too hungry to hunt for it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Hers was not the only troublesome appetite at Tara, for wherever she turned hungry faces, black and white, met her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  The sight of them drove her almost to madness, for she was as hungry as they.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  None of us will ever be hungry or cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  Strained and hungry faces, black and white, were staring at her, mutely asking her to provide food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  She was bitterly cold and hungry and so fearful of what lurked in the mists about her that she tried to scream and could not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  She was so hungry for success that she'd do anything to achieve it.
2  You've been chewing away all afternoon;you can't still be hungry.
3  My baby sister never cries unless she is hungry.
4  A tree whose hungry mouth is prest.
5  No wonder he is not hungry; he has been eating sweets all day.
6  Nothing comes wrong to a hungry man.
7  The hungry man devoured his dinner.
8  The hungry boy was devouring his dinner.
9  That is a drop of grain sacks from an aircraft to the hungry people on the island.
10  For a slim figure, share your foodwith the hungry.
11  However hungry I am, I never seem to be able to finish off a whole pizza.
12  Books are the food for the hungry of great mind.
13  By four o'clock I felt/was really hungry.
14  When our order finally arrived we were very hungry indeed.
15  The hungry kid began to squall.