hungrily

Example Sentences

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That’s where market behemoths, who have been feasting on small competitors for decades, begin to hungrily eye one another’s total addressable markets.

From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025

But his grandmother Elvire Desir chuckled as he hungrily gulped down his meal.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024

It includes “The Ghost of a Flea,” Tate’s rarely loaned, murky miniature painting in dark tempera and gold on hardwood panel starring a monstrous, human-insect hybrid looking hungrily into a bucket of blood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

In the meantime, I'll be hungrily scanning the shelves of my local thrift stores for any loose E-Meters, gripping my iFixit screwdriver like it's a fork waiting to tear apart a steak.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2023

Dunbar broke through and leaped up furiously on the soldier in white’s bed to see for himself, pressing his gleaming eye down hungrily against the tattered black hole in the shell of white bandages.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller