How to Use hungry in a Sentence

hungry

adjective

• They were hungry to learn more.
• There are millions of hungry people throughout the world.
• That girl is always hungry.
• The prisoners' families were hungry for more information.
• Sometimes, a tiger is hungry enough to take a chance with a bear.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• Don’t be shy; pull off the worms and put them where hungry birds and lizards can find them.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The cell was described as damp and the children left hungry.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2022
• Fans were hungry for more , and the new season had a lot of ground to cover.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
• And with James hungry to repeat the feeling from the summer in Paris, who knows?
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Will a pitching-hungry team ignore the red flags and pay him like a starter in his prime?
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• People are hungry for good music and artists don’t want to fit in a box.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2024
• This means that, to a hungry reindeer, the lichens look like blobs of black in a sea of white, even when they are buried beneath the snow.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• This, of course, probably meant that the kids were hungry.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 July 2024
• There are so many of them that even the hungriest predators can't eat them all.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
• The fox is hungry and will eat a chicken if only the two of them are ever left alone.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• Some early draft picks this year could be the missing pieces to a hungry franchise on the rise.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• This seems fair: Students who are hungry to learn and be challenged are easy to spot.
  — WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• Coach Paul Pitts-Dilley hopes his squad keeps the three H’s in mind: humble, hungry, and healthy.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• Eleven percent of Washington is hungry for part of the year.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2023
• Unless that lion's very hungry and decides to kill and then store the food.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• The bus brings food to kids who are hungry, and books to kids who are starved for something meaningful to read.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Nov. 2022
• A lot of viewers will be hungry for season three, then.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• The Wolves are hungry to get back on track after losing two of their last three games to Basha and Hamilton.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2022
• Prepare to come hungry and ready to indulge in some of the best Italian cuisine in town.
  — Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Bear is hungry and wants some of the honey from the bee’s tree, but the bee and its swarm are protective of their sweet treasure.
  — Tegan Tigani, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2022
• That means saying no to some young and hungry guys looking to build their name with a win over the 36-year-old legend.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Don't let your friend go hungry during their Star Wars marathon.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 30 Sep. 2022
• This morning his hair looks freshly cut, bringing out his high cheekbones and bright, hungry eyes.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• After Katrina, locations that were able to reopen were swarmed with people hungry for a hot meal.
  — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024