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

It’s packed with jagged guitar lines and fiery melodies that nip hungrily at your earlobes.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 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

I anticipate it so hungrily, so ardently, that I have to put it out of my head as May approaches.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2023

And we children sat huddled shoulder to shoulder on the blanket, reaching into the grocery sack full of bologna sandwiches, which we hungrily ate salted with sand from our fingers.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan