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Example sentences for "hungering"

Lexicographically close words:
hunerd; hung; hunged; hunger; hungered; hungers; hungrie; hungrier; hungriest; hungrily
  1. Dietegen looked as though hungering for recognition, but she only once more glanced back at him.

  2. If a man can believe that there is a God, he may well believe that, having made creatures capable of hungering and thirsting for him, he must be capable of speaking a word to guide them in their feeling after him.

  3. Besides, those who crowded nearest him would mostly be of the strongest who were least in need of a physician, and in whose being consequently there lay not that bare open channel hungering for the precious life-current.

  4. Yet every one of them must go hungering and thirsting and grasping in vain, until the door of that communion was opened for him.

  5. New Spirit was simply the Old Spirit of Domination, incessantly reviving and hungering to conquer and possess the world.

  6. His very genius came from the duality of his nature: behind the chemist was a social dreamer, hungering for justice and capable of the greatest love.

  7. He glared on her, Hungering to slay her in his jealous rage.

  8. He fell by Odysseus' hands, who spilt the lives Of many more whom his death-hungering spear Reached in that fight around the mighty dead.

  9. Then was the throng dispersed, and to the ships They scattered hungering for the morning meat Which strengtheneth man's heart.

  10. And at times, in spite of my relief at being free of the blackness that had craped in my last days at Beechwood, I often found myself hungering for my Bowater parlour--even for its smell.

  11. Now I was fervidly conscious of unseen, hungering eyes, watching every turn, and glance, and gesture.

  12. This may be a reason for not letting the world get entirely into their hands, but in the meantime we have every reason to be appreciative of the good the dockers are doing (so far as it goes) in hungering for themselves.

  13. The worst thing that could happen to the world would be to have it placed in the hands of men who only have a gift of hungering for certain sorts of things, or hungering for certain classes of people, or hungering for themselves.

  14. The docker is trying to get through hungering for something to eat, to arrange gradually to have his hungers move on.

  15. We do not want the man who is merely hungering for himself to rule the world--not because we feel superior to him, but because a man who is merely hungering for himself cannot be taken seriously as an authority on worlds.

  16. They are merely hungering for themselves.

  17. Hungering for some one whom she could trust, Lucilla took an early breakfast in her own room, and walked to Wrapworth, hoping to catch the curate lingering over his coffee and letters.

  18. I do not distrust my feeling for Phoebe--it is not the jealous, hungering love of old; and I hope to be able to discern whether this be an act of charity!

  19. There was something unutterably touching in the keen hungering tenderness of the look which they fixed on the portrait, intensified by an underlying expression of fond and patient reproach.

  20. The woman's heart, hungering in its horrible isolation for something that it might harmlessly love, welcomed the rescued waif of the streets as a consolation sent from God.

  21. Slight as the incident of the wall paper was, it served to check my dawning interest in domesticity, and set my hungering mind looking elsewhere for sustenance.

  22. I must suppose that she loved Tommy, that she was hungering for the sight of him, needing desperately to feel again the pressure of whatever bond had been between them.

  23. Supporting herself against the wall, she stood there in hiding, her eyes fastened in hungering suspense on the manuscript in Mr. Neal's hand.

  24. No wonder the hungering of your heart has eaten the bloom from your cheek!

  25. Why should this 'hungering and thirsting' be given me if there was nothing with which to satisfy it?

  26. Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot, Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold; Lest you with me should shiver on the wold, Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.

  27. There were the twins, girls of ten, hungering for beaux, pickles, and photographic albums.

  28. Susan looked over her head, even in the midst of the embrace, with the eyes of one hungering for her first-born son, but her husband shook his head.

  29. She knew him to be grievously weary of a charge most monotonously dull, and only varied by suspicions and petty detections; and that he was hungering and thirsting for his good ship and to be facing winds and waves.

  30. I never thought of it until my tigers, hungering for news, caught sight of the bulging paper and rushed my camp to grab.

  31. We've got to work to-night, and ain't hungering none for their company.

  32. Heron involuntarily, and this time even his eyes lost their cruelty; they joined issue with the mouth in an expression of hungering avarice.

  33. The passionate lover, hungering for his beloved, had vanished; there sat the man with a purpose, the man whose firm hand had snatched men and women and children from death, the reckless enthusiast who tossed his life against an ideal.

  34. Assembly of the Convention to the other, and the Assembly itself became as one vast den of wild beasts wherein wolves and hyenas devoured one another and, still unsatiated, licked their streaming jaws hungering for more prey.

  35. When Eustache was with Rose she experienced a keen, hungering jealousy, and it was then she wanted to be young.

  36. My darling, if a better man came, I could give you up, if I went hungering all the rest of my days.

  37. Did not everything foretell approaching schism amidst that great movement of men's minds, weary of old mummified dogmas and yet hungering for the divine?

  38. There are thirty-five ways of playing marbles, but this is the best way, and Elspeth knew that Tommy was hungering to look on, but without her, lest he should be accused of sweethearting.

  39. Dove-coloured was that stony beach, And white birds hungering hovered over The shining waves; And men had kindled there A great fierce heap of golden flame-- Spoiled grasses with dead buttercups and pale clover.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hungering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    craving; desire; empty; famished; fasting; fervid; hungering; hungry; itching; prurient; ravenous; starved; thirsty; unfilled; voracious; wolfish