hungry
adjective
having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
hungrily
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a word derived from
hungry.
Example Sentences
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That’s where market behemoths, who have been feasting on small competitors for decades, begin to hungrily eye one another’s total addressable markets.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
“Can’t we just, for one night, just all be family?” he pleads, a bit too hungrily.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
It’s packed with jagged guitar lines and fiery melodies that nip hungrily at your earlobes.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
Soon after, the mother eagle returned to the nest with food for Lola, the eaglet — who hungrily grabbed the fully intact and wriggling squirrel her mom had captured for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Sekai had milk; Arm had scrambled eggs, but he kept looking hungrily at her botde.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
