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
Here was the precious book-knowledge for which she had hungered and pinched so long.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field
Yet not even the great Shadow could cloud the love that shone in his eyes, as he looked at Elisabeth's eager face, and listened to the voice for which his soul had hungered so long.
From The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
And Elenor Murray’s heart had hungered too, Which drew our hearts together, made our love As it were mystical, more real.
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
