Example Sentences
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And yet we found shelter within it, we pondered our lives and the lives of others, thirsted, slept.
From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2022
Sondland, the college-dropout son of immigrants who fled Nazi Germany, thirsted for an ambassadorship for decades.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2022
Chinese officials have openly thirsted for him to be punished.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2020
England’s expanding colonies always thirsted for more Indian lands, but the French claimed vast territories without fully occupying them.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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