Example Sentences

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That’s where market behemoths, who have been feasting on small competitors for decades, begin to hungrily eye one another’s total addressable markets.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

It’s packed with jagged guitar lines and fiery melodies that nip hungrily at your earlobes.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024

His excitement to see them arriving, old friends and newcomers alike, was only rivaled by the potential energy of the growing crowd patiently, hungrily waiting for a jazz concert.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

I anticipate it so hungrily, so ardently, that I have to put it out of my head as May approaches.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

Her eyes were blue like Jason’s, but they gleamed with fractured light, like she’d just come out of a bunker after a nuclear war - hungrily searching for familiar details in a changed world.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan