hunger
noun
a compelling need or desire for food.
had hungered
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past perfectof hunger.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Their movement had hungered for this moment for years, but now, after Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
They had hungered and been ragged and lived with the wolf at the door.
From Time ● Oct. 25, 2012
He had hungered for it when he could not get it.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith
She did not feel the anger in his tones; it seemed like protection, for which she had hungered.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
He watched her slyly, with a sad joyousness in his eyes, drinking it in, as one who had hungered long for contentment and peace, such as this.
From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
