hunger
noun
a compelling need or desire for food.
have been hungering
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present perfect progressiveof hunger.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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This, in theory, would give downtrodden shareholders a premium return — one that they have been hungering for since the board turned down Microsoft’s offer to buy the company at $31 a share in 2008.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2011
As a revered victim of despotism rather than a live wheeler-dealer, Abiola may well become the mythic symbol of national unity that Nigerians have been hungering for since the country became independent 38 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know you will, when I tell you that I have been hungering and thirsting all day for the sound of your voice.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
I cried aloud in joy, “This is what I have been hungering for, these many years!”
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy
I have been hungering for the French so long, that I really thought I should die of starvation.
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
