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Recent Examples of famished The restaurant at Tranquility Base was closed, however, so the by-then famished band found a late-night diner down the road. Gary Graff, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2024 None of this perturbed Schwarzenegger, who was a famously quick study, almost lupine in his famished eagerness to learn, trading weight-lifting tips with his distinguished co-star James Earl Jones in return for actorly advice. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 The famished road warriors drove down the cold mountain highway and across the bridge into the town. J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 8 July 2024 On the outskirts of Wollongong, waking at dawn from its 20-hour nap, a famished, branch-hugging koala stretched its claw skyward for a fat, juicy green eucalyptus leaf. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for famished
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Adjective
  • Always keep a stash of instant ramyun or late-night snacks; you’re bound to get hungry again later.
    Irene Yoo September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Blue Raiders haven’t made the playoffs since 2013, and the program is hungry to get back in the dance.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Another example of a property-rich district is Anchorage, where far fewer students come from impoverished households, are learning to speak English as a second language or have other special education needs.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Eric Wright of the Klestsel Dehe Wintun Nation headquartered in Williams in the Sacramento Valley said some small tribes like his hope to team up with virtual gaming companies to try to generate revenue for their impoverished isolated communities using the sweepstakes games.
    CalMatters, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There are 577 bridges in Milwaukee, and only 5% are considered to be in poor condition, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Last week, as financial panic escalated following Milei’s party’s poor showing in local elections, Argentina’s central bank spent more than $1 billion of its foreign currency reserves to keep the peso from collapsing.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In another magical Miami tale, a broke witch who works in a spellshop and an adjunct professor who’s secretly a popular himbo mage team up to win a spellcasting reality show competition — except someone is sabotaging the contestants’ work.
    Lia Amador, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The longtime actor and multi-faceted filmmaker crafts an unhinged, go-for-broke performance as a legendary quarterback putting his potential heir apparent (Tyriq Withers) through a psychologically torturous training camp.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Famished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/famished. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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