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

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 cried aloud in joy, “This is what I have been hungering for, these many years!”

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker

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)