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Example sentences for "hungrily"

Lexicographically close words:
hungering; hungers; hungrie; hungrier; hungriest; hungry; hunk; hunkered; hunks; hunne
  1. Clara brought her full lips hungrily to his.

  2. Then suddenly in his arms Clara was at the same time hungrily moving and tense with fear of discovery.

  3. He hungrily devoured the words written on the tinted paper.

  4. Abraham looked at the book hungrily for weeks and finally worked up courage to ask the loan of it.

  5. As we fell hungrily to the food, the Mixer did not fail to praise my cooking of the trout, and she and Cousin Egbert were presently lamenting the difficulty of obtaining a well-cooked meal in Red Gap.

  6. Even now, though he sniffed hungrily at the open door, he paid me not the least attention--me whom he had once idolized!

  7. The prairie wolves loped hungrily around, and their mournful cry was borne upon the wind, as they chased deer and antelope on the neighboring plain; but not a sign of lurking Indians was seen or heard.

  8. The patient looked hungrily at the tin cup from which he had been taking the broth.

  9. When Hardy got home and turned on the gas in his little attic, he took the photograph down from its place and looked at it hungrily and greedily.

  10. He had often passed that house since Alison had gone to it, walking hungrily past it at dead of night, thinking of the girl whom he loved but might never win; now he might win his true love after all--he meant to try.

  11. Letty's eyes involuntarily sought the bag, whose concave sides flapped hungrily together; but she told her lie with cheerfulness.

  12. The "inspiration" is diligently hunted, hungrily waited for; at last the failure in its coming grows pitiful and tragic.

  13. It is the veriest of verities, and the deniers of the conditions of inspiration dry up the springs of that "inspiration" which they so hungrily seek.

  14. I ate it hungrily with brown bread and wine, which seemed to me delicious though it was rather sharp.

  15. My gaze fed hungrily on the two little half-spheres, which were not yet ripe, but so white as to make me guess how ravishing the rest of her body must be.

  16. Fragile, delicate women staggered under the heavy loads they bore to suffering children at home; the pale wife clutched hungrily at the huge ham, or the bag of coffee, for the wounded hero, pining at home for such a delicacy.

  17. All the lesser houses were equally packed, and crowds of guests stood hungrily round the dining-room doors at meal-times, watching and scrambling for vacated seats.

  18. Then, as Archibald rushed into the room, she caught him in her arms, and held him hungrily to her bosom.

  19. I can beat any boy at school running, mother," said Archibald, watching his plate of soup hungrily as it travelled toward him.

  20. They never knew, perhaps, how keenly they counted on that cup of coffee, or how hungrily they drank it.

  21. You saw him conversing hungrily with the gritty and taciturn Swede who was janitor for the block of red-brick flats.

  22. At Ali Musjid we sat by the banks of the streamlet and hungrily munched cold chicken and bread; for Mr. Pyne had suggested at breakfast our tucking something into our holsters in case of necessity: he had been there before.

  23. Seeing there was no seat to take, I took the floor, and waited hungrily till dinner should arrive.

  24. She bent hungrily over the burden he held, and then gazed wildly into his face.

  25. His unkempt followers crowded around us, looked hungrily at the meat, and seemed to calculate whether there was enough to go round.

  26. They hungrily tear at the flesh, quarrelling and snapping at each other, ready to fly if the tiger appears.

  27. Sentries posted and guards mounted, the rest of the men piled arms, took off their accoutrements; and, while some hungrily watched the cooks, others lay down on the ground and slept contentedly until food was ready.

  28. Her heart was crying out hungrily for the love of this tall, mysterious soldier of fortune.

  29. His eyes went hungrily to Beverly's averted face, and then assumed a careless gleam which indicated that he had resigned himself to the inevitable.

  30. He merely stared hungrily at her, and the loveliest thing he had ever seen was the play of golden hair beside her cheek.

  31. It was a race for life, and they could hear the flames roaring hungrily behind them as they tore along, the horses needing neither whip nor spur to send them at their best pace over the crackling grass.

  32. For it was most amusing to watch the dogs, sitting all four in a row, hungrily looking at the skinning and cutting up of the gnu.

  33. All at once his stubborn spirit broke; he uttered a cry, and sprang forward to snatch the unconscious form hungrily into his bear clasp, searching the girl's face, muttering incoherent things.

  34. Perhaps he sympathized with the boys, but it was true he ate as hungrily as they did, all the while telling them stories of his experiences in the land of the long day and the long night.

  35. Would it battle valiantly and triumphantly with the piratical hordes of critics who prowl hungrily along the track over which it must sail?

  36. Your protegee is a true daughter of Eve, and she eyes Leigh's fortune as hungrily as the aforesaid venerable mother of mankind did the tempting apple.

  37. Hungrily she pressed his arm close to hers and rubbed her cheek against his coat.

  38. He spoke abruptly, while his hands clasped hers hungrily and tightly.

  39. His heart was glad at the unexpected feast in store, and he whined hungrily under his breath.

  40. His green eyes gleamed hungrily in his tawny face, and he crouched so close to the snow crust that his whiskers dragged on the ground.

  41. So the budget of home news was undone, and Ben regaled Jasper, who hungrily took in every word.


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