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.
• This team is just as hungry to cut down the nets in April.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2022
• Sometimes, a tiger is hungry enough to take a chance with a bear.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• Don’t be shy; pull off the worms and put them where hungry birds and lizards can find them.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• The people sitting in the last row were just as hungry and thirsty as the fans up front.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The cell was described as damp and the children left hungry.
  — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2022
• Yet to those who are hungry, a box of matzah meal can be the basis of a main course for weeks.
  — Judy Waldman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2022
• Astronomers tend to be hungry, and many of us love junk food.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
• Fans were hungry for more , and the new season had a lot of ground to cover.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
• The pie is being sliced so thin that most artists are left hungry.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2022
• In old French 'vantre' referred to the belly, all of which to say... come to Vantre hungry.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 17 June 2022
• The Tour de France Femmes was a huge hit, and a sign that the world is hungry for more women’s cycling.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2022
• And with James hungry to repeat the feeling from the summer in Paris, who knows?
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Will a pitching-hungry team ignore the red flags and pay him like a starter in his prime?
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• People are hungry for good music and artists don’t want to fit in a box.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2024
• This means that, to a hungry reindeer, the lichens look like blobs of black in a sea of white, even when they are buried beneath the snow.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• This, of course, probably meant that the kids were hungry.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 July 2024
• There are so many of them that even the hungriest predators can't eat them all.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
• Or, load it up with snacks if the kids are hungry from a long day of playing outside.
  — Kelly Roberson, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2022
• The fox is hungry and will eat a chicken if only the two of them are ever left alone.
  — Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• As though the jobless and houseless among us are no longer hungry.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• That’s even better news for those who love Thor: Love and Thunder and leave the movie hungry for more.
  — Joe George, Men's Health, 8 July 2022
• Some early draft picks this year could be the missing pieces to a hungry franchise on the rise.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• The county can, at the very least, ensure that all children are fed and don't go to school hungry.
  — Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
• This seems fair: Students who are hungry to learn and be challenged are easy to spot.
  — WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• Coach Paul Pitts-Dilley hopes his squad keeps the three H’s in mind: humble, hungry, and healthy.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• The best and hungriest sides find a way of treating every match and every opponent the same, with no slipping of standards.
  — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025