thirst
noun
a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
will thirst
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future tenseof thirst.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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One taste of its pure waters, and one will thirst for them for life.
From Time Magazine Archive
I. The soul that knows its own needs will thirst after God.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
We presume that few will thirst for another draught from this pitcherful of the Border Helicon; and—as time presses—we shall now push forward to the consideration of the remodelled poetry.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
Descended from adventurers, not from Puritans, and eager, as men of their climate must be, for pleasant lives, they will thirst for dependent possessions, for gardens where fortunes grow.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett
Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give shall never thirst.
From The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman
