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

But his grandmother Elvire Desir chuckled as he hungrily gulped down his meal.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 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

I anticipate it so hungrily, so ardently, that I have to put it out of my head as May approaches.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

Will had found a tin of condensed milk, and the cat had lapped it hungrily and then begun to lick her wounds.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman