Silent, unresponsive, shy, she would sometimes raise her eyes from her book in school and find him gazing steadily at her like a timid deer drinking thirstily at a spring.
Go ahead,” said Andy, drinking his tea thirstily and looking as if he had not slept.
Ben Davis took his legs off the table with a crash, and stood up, flushed, thirstily eager, almost aggressive in his peremptory excitement.
There were some moments of silence, while the dark eyes of the dying man thirstily dwelt on the beauty of the flowers, and his dry, ashen lips seemed to drink in their perfumes as those athirst drink in water.
Only there gleamed thirstily in her eyes that fearful avarice which begrudges every moment in its flight as never the miser grudged his hoarded gold into the robber's grasp.
Strolling ruminantly on the promenade at Nice, Caryll's heart turned thirstily toward the giver of oblivion.
It was late in the afternoon when he took his way homeward, having eaten nothing, only drunk thirstily of water wherever a little brook had made a well amongst the tufts of hepatica in the pine woods.
The idle and vociferous elements in the town discovered that the Marquis was a plutocrat and an enemy of the people, and called thirstily for his blood.
She gazed thirstily at him and clutched his hands.
I seized greedily on my new idea; I thirstily drank in all its different aspects (I did not sleep a wink that night!
Coming to a clear, rapid stream, the warriors dismounted and rested while their horses drank thirstily of the cool water.
Then she drooped her graceful head and drank thirstily of the cool water.
In the yellow sands and burnt by the sun, he doubtless peereth thirstily at the isles rich in fountains, where life reposeth under shady trees.
His eyes went thirstily to hers, and as she met those bold, soft eyes, the scarlet leaped to her face.
He knelt up, and, flinging his arms around her, reached his mouth thirstily to hers.
I had long since picked up some of the business jargon of the country and I was thirstily drinking in more and more "What do you think of this number, Mr. So-and-so?
She was thirstily seeking for information on the subject of table manners, and whatever knowledge she possessed of it she would practise, and make Lucy practise, with amusing pomp and circumstance.
In front of this panel the tigress lay down, licking the pavement thirstily from time to time and giving vent to short purring sounds of impatience: .
He seized the cup eagerly and drank thirstily from it.
Otto, grasping her hand with the cup, drank thirstily from the ice-cold draught.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirstily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
