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

"And did you care?—you who were so coy, and who, when you knew my heart was hungering for you, would tell me nothing!"

From The Birthright by Hocking, Joseph