hunger
noun
a compelling need or desire for food.
was hungering
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past progressiveof hunger.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“I was hungering to use my voice in an unapologetic way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
I was hungering for a less stressful, more immediate experience of comedy.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2015
Just as exotic meringue Pavlovas once seduced bland English palates, England at the start of the Capello era was hungering to go continental if that would bring success.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
He was hungering for a playwright's career then.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Olive, watching him and suddenly grown aware of his weakness, it was plain that life was taking it out of him rather badly, plain that the man before her was hungering for comprehension, comfort.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
