hungry
adjective
having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
hungriness
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a word derived from
hungry.
Example Sentences
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“It’s just a different feel coming in here. ... You’ve got that hungriness of coming off a Super Bowl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
You’ve got that hungriness of coming off a Super Bowl, everybody doubting you, that you can get back there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
“But I think those two games set us up for the hungriness that we needed for this game.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2013
There was a hungriness in his sharp, black eyes which would have been observed by any one other than these two backwoodsmen.
From In the Brooding Wild by Ridgwell Cullum
From one it swells out into rounded fullness; from the other it gapes as in empty hungriness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
