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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What did that highway sign say?—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 See all Example Sentences for hungry
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English hungrig; akin to Old English hungor
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Time Traveler
The first known use of hungry was
before the 12th century
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