How to Use thirsty in a Sentence

thirsty

adjective

• The salty food was making her thirsty.
• For the love of God, leave the Sweeney cousins out of your thirsty tweets.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Nov. 2022
• Was the tree happy and healthy and well fed, or thirsty and stressed out?
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• What drinks should be poured for the thirsty heroes who make the city proud?
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2021
• In a world thirsty for water, lawns are a sneaky siphon.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• The light in the kitchen was pale and wintry; a fly buzzed around the thirsty monstera in the pot on the windowsill.
  — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
• Miller: The idea for that one was this is a movie that is thirsty to win Oscars.
  — Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Anybody who might be thirsty could have a change of heart.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2020
• These plants are thirsty and will not do well if they’re allowed to wilt.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
• To say the least, Twitter is grateful … and also kind of thirsty.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Nov. 2020
• An aging Texas Ranger and a mob thirsty for law and order take their shot(s).
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• That needy Jesus, who pops in right at the end, deserves his own sad and thirsty spinoff.
  — Matthew Love, Vulture, 23 May 2021
• But the crackling energy and edge of a thirsty East Bay crowd?
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• This way, the thirsty starches will cook as the soup is reheated.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
• Noah, call your bro and tell him to stop being so thirsty for a slot on Paradise.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 July 2024
• It’s all of you thirsty heathens who want so many tickets.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 15 Nov. 2022
• There's no way to go hungry—or thirsty—in this country.
  — Nicola Leigh Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2021
• The drive wound by Orem and Provo, then through a landscape so parched that even the sagebrush looked thirsty.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Solis tried to comfort the girl, who was cold, hungry and thirsty.
  — Adriana Gomez Licon, Chron, 23 Mar. 2021
• Louisville swings open its arms to the world the first weekend in May, double-fisting the bourbons, and that world is thirsty.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2023
• Add a bottle of water and a glass on the bedside table in case your guest gets thirsty in the middle of the night.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2021
• Don’t plant thirsty plants into dry beds and vice versa.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Tamarisk beetles, which are native to Asia, eat away at thirsty salt cedars.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2020
• Each year, the region depends on monsoon rains to relieve the thirsty earth.
  — Hannah Gard and Jennifer Gray, CNN, 14 June 2021
• But that doesn't mean thirsty neighbors won't challenge it.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
• As his group points out, the Tesla site is remarkably thirsty.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• My father was fishing on Lake Francis, east of Mankato, in the 1950s and was thirsty.
  — Star Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• With drought upon us once more, swap out your lawn for less thirsty garden plants.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• Just a tiny bit of its neem oil, coconut oil, and silk protein combo is all thirsty hair needs to feel quenched and look beautifully conditioned.
  — Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
• Despite the sticker price, this vehicle will still quell the speed demon inside the owner, while not being as expensive or nearly as thirsty as the AMG model.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024