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Example sentences for "hunger"

Lexicographically close words:
hundret; hundreth; hunerd; hung; hunged; hungered; hungering; hungers; hungrie; hungrier
  1. You can satisfy your hunger in such a berry-patch in ten minutes, while out in the field you must pick for half an hour, and in the forest thrice as long, before you can fill a small tin cup.

  2. If so, puss and my dog and I need never suffer hunger again.

  3. These they ate, and so satisfied their hunger somewhat.

  4. Then there would be nothing for him but the same poverty and hunger he had endured for so many years.

  5. Signification This devil is strong in wile and might, as witches are in their craft; he makes men hunger and thirst and have sinful desires; he entices men to him with his breath; whoever follows him finds shame.

  6. Hunger and thirst bow souldiers thies, In which Deaths path and Plutos lies.

  7. He has the madness because of hunger, a hunger not only of body but of mind; the century-long hunger of the Russian peoples for Freedom.

  8. It's the queerest, strongest hunger in the world.

  9. Did you ever feel land hunger yourself," Lydia went on eagerly, "to look at the rows and rows of pine and think what it would mean to own them, forever!

  10. Instantly Lydia's sleeping land hunger woke and with it the memory of Charlie's tales.

  11. And suddenly there woke in her, her racial hunger for land.

  12. He tells the story of a Liverpool surgeon who was so reduced by poverty, neglect and hunger that he lived on the mice caught by his cat.

  13. Every now and then some poor wretch with hunger in his looks, would stop one of them, and dispose of the miserable rags from his back, and then, turning to another dealer, expend the amount in unattractive food.

  14. Men driven desperate by hunger would, for the sake of a little relief, turn traitors, and inform against their companions in wretchedness.

  15. Leaving the wood, we saw a cottage, and hunger being importunate we went up to it.

  16. I was revolted, contrary to all expectation, for I opened the book with a sort of hunger for style and beauty.

  17. I caught two live mice, and put them in to it; but they would sooner have died of hunger than the snake would have eaten them: they sat shivering on its back, while it lay coiled up as round as a ball of worstep.

  18. Though feeling somewhat weak from our long fast, hunger urged us on; and in spite of the roughness of the ground, making our way to the westward, we soon lost sight of our companions on the beach.

  19. It must be done, however, for we had come away without food or water, and hunger and thirst made us doubly anxious to get on board.

  20. Our spirits rose somewhat, but we were getting exhausted from hunger and thirst, for we had no food nor water with us, nor if we had could we have spared time to eat and drink.

  21. Swimmin' in plenty as he is, it's little that he thinks of the pinchin' hunger we feel.

  22. Perhaps the sensation of hunger may be to him as disagreeable as the sense of satiety is to you," suggested the spirit.

  23. Yet a prison should not be made a tempting place of refuge and vacation; if so in times of cold and hunger it will be filled with those who would rather suffer shame than work.

  24. All have a hunger of the soul for something beside life's meat and drink; all want a remedy for the sorrows of the world.

  25. Nicholas and Calabash, not daring to attack me openly a second time, fastened me up in my chamber to allow me to perish of hunger in it.

  26. Hunger and disease at last obliged Rodil to yield.

  27. The poor beast lay dead on the ground; in his ravenous hunger he had eaten of the poisonous garbancillo.

  28. The ounce is, however, too cunning to be easily caught in traps, and it is only when pressed by hunger that he can be tempted by a bait.

  29. For supper, the old woman cooks a vile mess called Chupe, consisting of potatoes and water, mixed with Spanish pepper; but it is so dirtily prepared, that nothing but the most deadly hunger would induce any one to taste it.

  30. I tied the animal to a stone, and whilst he eagerly regaled himself with the little grass that was not buried beneath the snow, I satisfied my hunger with some roasted maize and cheese.

  31. Except the little money this work brought in, and a trifle raised now and then by the sale of a bit of furniture when hunger and cold pressed them hard, the whole family had been living upon 5s.

  32. But it stills neither hunger nor thirst, and he who bathes too often feels his nervous strength relaxed, his blood over-excited, and his organs toned down to a voluptuous languor.

  33. In Rosenbusch's room the mice are squealing from pure hunger or ennui; and I have not heard Jansen's door squeak once this morning.

  34. It is unfortunate that they should hunger a little, but what will you?

  35. Real hunger comes only when the body is actually starving.

  36. True hunger is not what most people think of when they think they are hungry.

  37. This process usually takes three to five days and for most people, no further "hunger pangs" are felt until the fast is over.

  38. Not only will you have less intestinal gas, if overweight you will probably find yourself getting smaller because your blood sugar will elevate quicker as you are eating and thus your sense of hunger will go away sooner.

  39. Starvation begins where fasting ends, which is when real hunger begins.

  40. Nonetheless, I persevered on the same regimen because my hunger had not returned, my tongue was still thickly coated with foul-smelling, foul-tasting mucus and I still had some fat on my feet that had not been metabolized.

  41. They confuse acidosis with hunger when most have never experienced real hunger in their entire lives.

  42. The intense discomforts many people experience upon missing a meal are frequently interpreted as hunger but they aren't.

  43. Salt-free broths made from meatless instant powder (obtainable at the health food store) can also fend off the desire to eat until the stage of hunger has passed.

  44. Psychological hunger usually begins with the first missed meal.

  45. The sufferings of the men now became terrible, both from hunger and thirst.

  46. Noon came, and passed, and still the heat and the suffering increased, the fever and craving of hunger being now added to that of thirst.

  47. They delayed as little as possible, yet the fall rains came upon them, and snow fell in the mountains, so as seriously to impede the labor of driving the cattle, and hunger and sickness began to affright them.

  48. You shan't kill us with hunger and work in the winter, and they shan't light the fires!

  49. I see myself deserted and frightfully widowed, and my mouth quivers with hunger and thirst for another mouth.

  50. What the nature of this hunger and thirst was I cannot tell.

  51. Banneker set to his browsing in the library until hunger drove him forth.

  52. Not for days thereafter did the Hunger come.

  53. That voice should supply the long unsatisfied hunger of the many for truth uncorrupted.

  54. The heated balsamic air began to affect him like a powerful sedative; his hunger was forgotten in the languor of fatigue: he slumbered.

  55. It's a little gal as uster hunger and thirst ez quiet and mannerly ez she now eats and drinks in plenty; whose voice was ez steady with Injins yellin' round yer nest in the leaves on Sweetwater ez in her purty cabin up yonder.

  56. Hunger drove the victorious King of Prussia out of Bohemia; hunger made him abandon Silesia and seek refuge in Berlin.

  57. We thank you, that for some months we have not suffered from hunger and thirst; that the good people of Berlin take an interest in the German stage, and treat us with some consideration.


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