hunger
noun
a compelling need or desire for food.
am hungering
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present progressiveof hunger (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am hungering for a month or two's silence.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
"I am hungering for a chat with you."
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
I am hungering and thirsting for them, my heart is burning in me, but they will not come to bring relief in the agony, for I am dying now, I feel that this is death.
From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage
I am hungering and thirsting to go back to Hungary.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
And now," said the factor, smiling, "let us have talk of that world of which I am hungering for news.
From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe
