How to Use hungry in a Sentence

hungry

adjective
  • They were hungry to learn more.
  • There are millions of hungry people throughout the world.
  • That girl is always hungry.
  • The prisoners' families were hungry for more information.
  • Kids who are hungry can’t learn.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe these strangers looked hungry and tired.
    Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • That’s a child who didn’t go to bed hungry.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But then again, maybe the world will stay hungry for oil.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
  • His eyes – now on my hands, now on my face – were hungry.
    Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
  • Your hungry crowd will be sure to clean you out of all of these.
    Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But the Spaniard is hungry for more.
    Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The boy looked hungry and Shah looked away.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Hareza and the Porters are hungry, too.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • What fan base is hungriest to win it all?
    Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The fan base is hungry for a winning team.
    Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • The last people to go hungry are the men with guns.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Kyle is hungry to be the next two-time winner.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
  • All that milk made kids less hungry for solid foods.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But when the baby woke up hungry, things took a turn.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The line was long, and clearly the man was hungry.
    Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Portions are quite large, so be sure to come hungry!
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Portions are quite large, so be sure to come hungry!
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The man later brought hungry friends to the church.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • How to feed those hungry wild birds this winter.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Or, the map as a menu for land-hungry empires.
    Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At that price point, go very hungry and early.
    Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Astronomers tend to be hungry, and many of us love junk food.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The pie is being sliced so thin that most artists are left hungry.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
  • And then there’s just such things as some people are hungry.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
  • So, today no kid goes hungry at school.
    Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 14 June 2026

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