thirst

"Where has the milk gone?" she asked when the BBC spoke to her as she was out searching for at least a few packets to quench her customers thirst for chai.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Quench your summertime thirst with the best spots for shaved ice in L.A., from raspados to kakigori.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Yet scientists are discovering that this everyday drink may be doing far more in the body than quenching thirst.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors,” he reflected, “the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Watching the screen, she could hardly remember the thirst that had brought her here, the trouble that Clara was managing, the clock without hands....She wanted only to watch the movie, to let everything vanish.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

And one which has a big job ahead: Taking the food orders and quenching the thirsts of millions of visitors who will flock to the Paris Olympics this July.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural pests because of their unquenchable thirsts and splashy bathroom habits: when nature calls, these bugs launch droplets of their watery pee and create puddles of disease-causing waste.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2023

“It is a big, bold change, the kind of change America thirsts for.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

Improv musician Marc Rebillet uses a loop machine and strong WiFi to quench our thirsts.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

They all rested like that, absolutely quiet, drinking more slowly now that their thirsts had been quenched, eyes vaguely fixed on shadow-casting objects downhill.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Though both won races across all of alpine’s disciplines, Vonn thirsted for the speed of downhill and its little sister super-G, in which she posted 71 of her 82 World Cup wins.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023

And yet we found shelter within it, we pondered our lives and the lives of others, thirsted, slept.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022

“After that, I thirsted for wild adventure. Growing up on Staten Island, realizing my queerness in its sleepy working-class communities, I viewed Greenwich Village as Shangri-La.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2022

England’s expanding colonies always thirsted for more Indian lands, but the French claimed vast territories without fully occupying them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

But what I had always thirsted for were the details: the way her hair glinted in the sunlight, her favorite ice cream flavor, the songs she liked to hum, did she bite her nails?

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

I saw thousands of Saudi men and women, young and old, thirsting for the sort of recreation that until very recently they had to travel abroad to enjoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

"That two undocumented migrants were the only ones who physically risked themselves to help the victim of a pack thirsting for horror leaves much food for thought and a series of lessons," Mayor Rey said.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

And sometimes the changes come like a whirlwind, dividing parishes between those thirsting for a more reverent Catholicism and those who feel their spiritual home has been taken from them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

The pattern could leave millions of Italians surrounded by water now, but, in the summer, thirsting for a drop.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2023

We slipped in and out of wakefulness, wincing at the soreness in our muscles, and thirsting for more of that tart lemonade.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall