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Examples of hungry in a Sentence
There are millions of hungry people throughout the world.
That girl is always hungry.
The prisoners' families were hungry for more information.
They were hungry to learn more.
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Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2024
At this stage in its development, AI has been likened to a young child that is still learning the contours of the world, hungry for data and always wanting more.
—Linda Kinstler, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
In Pennsylvania, that comes in the form of taxing work: At key times of the year, state employees and volunteers haul 25-pound bags of chestnuts up into the mountains to drop them in crevices only hungry woodrats could reach, Otterbein said.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
On our own planet’s dynamic surface, hungry microbes would have destroyed such evidence a long time ago.
—Big Think, 17 June 2024
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Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2024
At this stage in its development, AI has been likened to a young child that is still learning the contours of the world, hungry for data and always wanting more.
—Linda Kinstler, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
In Pennsylvania, that comes in the form of taxing work: At key times of the year, state employees and volunteers haul 25-pound bags of chestnuts up into the mountains to drop them in crevices only hungry woodrats could reach, Otterbein said.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
On our own planet’s dynamic surface, hungry microbes would have destroyed such evidence a long time ago.
—Big Think, 17 June 2024
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“Hungry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hungry. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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