hungriest
- superlative of hungry.
Example Sentences
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“All of us, from the wealthiest and most powerful of men to the weakest and hungriest of children, share one precious possession: the name American.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Astronomers claimed on Monday that they had discovered what might be the hungriest, most luminous object in the visible universe — a supermassive black hole that was swallowing a star a day.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2024
In war-torn Gaza, he said, no one has enough to eat and the tiny strip accounts for 80% of the 700,000 hungriest people in the world.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024
“Professor, you wrote so much about takeout,” my hungriest pupil pushed back, “What’s the deal? You against it now?”
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2023
To avoid the woman she had to tiptoe down the hall like a mouse trying to escape the hungriest of cats.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
