thirsting

Still Obama allied America with those Arabs and Iranians thirsting for freedom, and he did so in a subtle but remarkable way.

This is a book in which a hip twentysomething can say, “I opened up to him like a flower thirsting for water.”

And here I sit hungering and thirsting till my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

Now he is thirsting for revenge, and probably seeking a victim nearer home, in Allegheny.

When Tarbell discovered him he had cut out the booze, had grown a beard, and was thirsting for vengeance.

As far as the eye could reach was an excited crowd, restless, furious, and thirsting for vengeance.

Like heroes indeed thirsting for fight they rush about; like combatants eager for glory they have striven in battles.