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Example sentences for "hungered"

Lexicographically close words:
hundreth; hunerd; hung; hunged; hunger; hungering; hungers; hungrie; hungrier; hungriest
  1. Alternately I hungered for a sight of Kitty and watched her outrageous flirtations with my successor--to speak more accurately, my successors--with amused interest.

  2. I had a passion for the society of my kind which I had never felt before; I hungered to be among the realities of life; and at the same time I felt vaguely unhappy when I had been separated too long from my ghostly companion.

  3. Her eyes always hungered for a red shield and harness, a black horse, a face grieving in dark reserve and silence.

  4. Igraine's confidence woke at the touch of the girl's lips; she hungered even for this child's comfort, her simple guidance in this matter of life and love.

  5. Thoughts change with time: that which I once hungered for, now I despise.

  6. Moreover, like many a man of restless, soaring spirit, Gorlois ever hungered for romance, and the mysterious discomforts and satisfactions that hedge the way into a woman's bosom.

  7. Come forth and say injustice hath been done to any man--that I looked with lack of pity on a wound, or gave not of my own to all who hungered and were athirst!

  8. And so, leaning across the tiller, I stared away into the raging dark; and now it seemed that the soul of me had sunk to deeps more black and, groping blindly there, hungered for the light.

  9. I hungered and thirsted for the sound of your voice, for the sight of your face.

  10. For years I have hungered and thirsted for this hour.

  11. The representative of their Judge, they had seen a hungered and they gave him no meat, thirsty and they gave him no drink, a stranger and they took him not in, naked and they clothed him not, sick and in prison and they visited him not.

  12. And from that hour I've hungered for your, Cleone, do you hear?

  13. The poverty of the spiritual diet prepared for men who hungered for instruction and who leaned to heresy cannot be passed by without notice.

  14. I had known the man whose death had come; and when his body went below I hungered for the grip of the hand which was then washed by the Channel waves.

  15. Yes, if there be no such heart and source of humanity as she believed in; if there be, then such calmness and courage and content as hers are the mere human and natural condition to be hungered after by every aspiring soul.

  16. May I dare say that I have hungered for a sight of you?

  17. The woman he had loved, for whom he had waited and hungered so patiently, was to sleep her last sleep in that quiet place, to sleep as calmly and as gently as she had lived.

  18. It has been so long, and I have wanted you so much--I have hungered sleeping and waking.

  19. He was like a man who, having hungered for many days, finds himself suddenly satisfied again.

  20. Silently her heart still yearned and hungered for the husband of her youth; his son did not replace him.

  21. She wanted money and name; there were days when she hungered for them.

  22. She had not before known that she hungered and thirsted for love.

  23. He has hungered to meet her, yet months intervene without that bitter joy.

  24. He had lately hungered for somebody more charitable to himself than he himself could be.

  25. Never in his life had he so hungered to answer scorn with scorn but his hands were tied.

  26. And more than all, he hungered to see some wavering of courage, some blenching from the thing to come.

  27. They were so far forth blessed in Christ, that they hungered and thirsted after it.

  28. And he henceforth is an hungered and athirst after more righteousness, that he might fulfil the law; and mourneth continually, commending his weakness unto God in the blood of our Saviour, Christ Jesus.

  29. Yes, but I soon got tired of art--I still hungered for romance.

  30. It was true, as he often told himself, that his nature was one of those foreordained to loneliness, but at times he hungered for the companionship of his kind.

  31. Even I, who have but slender appetite, grow hungered in these cool gloaming hours.

  32. There were the Dukes of Exeter and Somerset, their very garments soiled and threadbare,--many a day had those great lords hungered for the beggar's crust!

  33. I now realize why I have hungered all my life," said Max, "though I have never before known: I longed for friends.

  34. Only the good God can know how I have longed and hungered since childhood for friendship; even for companionship.

  35. The more weary and footsore, the more chilled and hungered ye are, the sweeter shall be the marriage-supper and the rest of the Father's House.

  36. Oh, how hungered were those great eyes, that looked too large for the white face!

  37. His fingers hungered to take his child to his arms.

  38. If he came to see his family, or because he hungered for his godchild, or because--but we are hurrying the situation.

  39. I've hungered and worked, and I've made a living for myself and my child as best I could.

  40. But I've hungered and worked for seven years, and now it's time my husband did something for me.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hungered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.