thirst
noun
a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
were thirsting
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past progressiveof thirst.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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Last week, in the National Football League championship, the Champion Packers faced their sternest test of the season; the New York Giants, humbled 37-0 by Green Bay last year, were thirsting for revenge.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time Wilson took his turn to speak, delegates were thirsting for uplift.
From Time Magazine Archive
That there was a determined and well-conceived plot to carry the Duke off is undoubted, but the counter-plots prevailed against the more ardent Bonapartists who were thirsting for a resurrection of the glorious Empire.
From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Walter Runciman
St. Cloud, Meudon, Versailles, Robinson, were crowded every night with people who were thirsting for air and food after long hot days in the dust and struggles of the exposition.
From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
The men followed her, and in a sheltered creek on the shore, they actually found a cask, which inspired them with the hope that it contained the generous drink for which they were thirsting.
From Undine by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett
