have been hungering
- present perfect progressive of hunger.
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 Brontë, Anne
Then, casting away all caution, I answered: "It is precisely a knowledge of those greater matters concerning the family which I have been hungering after ever since I came into the house."
From A Crystal Age by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
I have been hungering for the French so long, that I really thought I should die of starvation.
From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
