Example Sentences

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Or how gardens thirstily drink up quantities of water that would quickly form puddles on a lawn?

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2023

And I will be paying attention like an obsessive, trying to sear the details inside myself forever, hungrily, thirstily, consuming these moments, knowing I am not promised more.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2022

Franchises, of course, have always pandered — it’s in their D.N.A. — but rarely has one groveled quite so thirstily for fan approval.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

We wanted a drink, but there we stood, alone in the snow, thirstily looking up and down the main drag of our neighborhood.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2015

She hugged herself against the sudden chill and watched the marsh thirstily drink up the first water of the season.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer