Example Sentences

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“I wasn’t campaigning for it, but I was thirsting for something different, completely removed from the work I had been doing up to that point,” Jenkins said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

The country, she said, was thirsting for “deep systemic solutions to our crises.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2020

When Wall Street was thirsting for a growth stock, Randell provided it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Liu: "I came because I saw that the entire leadership of the country, the fabric of the country was thirsting for biology."

From Time Magazine Archive

His strength was broken, his heart was bursting, His bones were rotten, his throat was thirsting, His feet were reeling, his brush was thick From dragging the mud, and his brain was sick.

From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John