hungering

Example Sentences

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On top of that, investors hungering for a new CEO had hoped Cornell’s replacement would arrive from outside Target; instead, the board picked a 20-year company veteran.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2025

“Mr. Kennedy is the one person who has the qualities that can bring about the unity that most Americans are hungering for,” Mr. Kucinich said.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez