hungering

Example Sentences

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Her own audience, primed to look for conspiracy theories in the wake of a high-profile murder, had been hungering for Owens to challenge the widely accepted version of events.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

It has also served as a watershed moment for the business-news landscape, making a group of internet influencers go-to sources for people hungering for news of FTX and SBF, as Bankman-Fried is known.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

Based on a 1992 movie, this musical features Billy Crystal returning to the role of Buddy Young Jr., a has-been comic who is hungering for a comeback and reconnecting with family.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

But before she drops the curtain on “Better Things,” is she perhaps hungering for that Emmy win?

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov