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appetite English

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appetite

When you have appetite, you feel hungry and would like to eat some food. My blocked nose is making me lose appetite.

appetite

(= appetency) a feeling of craving something an appetite for life the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible — Granville Hicks

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Simple sentences

Thanks to you I've lost my appetite.
Mathematics is not detrimental to the appetite.
A good appetite is a good sauce.
Tom had no appetite because of his illness.
The cook was astonished at his incredible appetite.
I have a good appetite.
Sudden decrease in appetite is sometimes a sign of illness.
She has a gigantic appetite.
She has a great appetite for adventure.
The sad news took away his appetite.
I have a huge appetite.
Appetite comes with eating, but the thirst goes away with drinking.
The more I eat the bigger my appetite gets.
I have no appetite.
Let's do some exercise to work up an appetite.
I have a good appetite today.
I have a poor appetite these days.
I have a poor appetite.

Movie subtitles

It was competitive, certainly, but not the kind of competition that fosters innovation, much less the appetite for change.
A guy gave his kidney, and. and, um. He developed an unexplainable appetite for pumpkin pie. Wouldn't eat anything else.
Dennin won't be joining us - he is no longer hungry. He lost his appetite due to envy!
This is a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier.
It's enough to take away a man's appetite.
Her soul will be forever freed of that awful appetite.
Cut it out, man. You're spoiling my appetite.
You may work up an appetite.
Mimi, it hasn't affected your appetite.
That will take away your appetite.
You get a marvellous appetite in Spain.
What appetite you'll have, General?
I feel an appetite coming on for good things.
Ajackal's appetite!
And be sure he's got a sober appetite.
Such impudence must support a mighty appetite.
Here, curb your appetite with that.
I'm afraid the company has spoiled my appetite.
Well, you will let me know if you regain your appetite, won't you?
Yes, and it affects your appetite too.
Other than your big appetite, big mouth and laziness, I do wonder what God gave you.
It'll spoil my appetite.
He developed an unexplainable appetite for pumpkin pie.
You know, you've got an appetite like a bird, a small bird.
I feel an appetite coming on for good things. Ajackal's appetite!
Ashley told me he likes girls with a healthy appetite.

News and current affairs

Georgia's economic success has been largely dependent on direct foreign investment, for which there is hardly any appetite today.
Chinese party bosses, like Japanese politicians - or, indeed, Mafia dons - are supposed to be discreet in their appetite for power.
Peace thus requires a degree of political and socioeconomic change to diminish the appetite for military adventurism.
Accordingly, they will show very limited appetite for risking the hard-earned policy gains of the last 10-15 years, and the resilience and self-assurance that has come with those gains.
People's weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.
There is no appetite in Israel for a second Operation Cast Lead; but nothing less than a stable, long-lasting ceasefire is acceptable.
Investment demand has slackened not because interest rates are too high, but because there is not enough risk appetite within the banking system.
Certainly, there are some good economic reasons why lenders have such an insatiable appetite for debt.
The propaganda campaign against Vlad succeeded brilliantly, satisfying the public's appetite for sensation with graphic images of the vicious, impaling prince.
Rostowski's point is that European countries demonstrated throughout the euro crisis that they had very little appetite for solidarity, even with their partners in the monetary union.
These catastrophes stripped NASA of its appetite for risk.
But investors' risk appetite could easily shift, spurring them to withdraw large amounts of capital.
From bullet trains to the Mars rover, humanity has an insatiable appetite for pushing boundaries and breaking records.
A decade or two of economic freedom and growth will give China's people an appetite for self-determination and participation that may surprise the rest of us.
So the good news is that developing countries can continue to grow rapidly even if world trade slows in and there is reduced appetite for capital flows and trade imbalances.
Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
It is natural for the world to be alarmed by Asia's growing appetite for energy.
Is this lack of appetite for justice a part of Filipino culture, or learned behavior?
With the onset of the European sovereign-debt crisis in 2010, banks' appetite for public debt fell again.
With American home values and retirement savings falling and Chinese unemployment numbers rising, observers worry that neither America nor China will have much appetite to cut emissions.
But, while donors and their taxpayers might be willing to make long-term commitments for such a purpose, there is likely to be rather less appetite for making commitments which would seem to be never-ending.
When they do - and assuming that the government does not suddenly tighten its belt (it has no credible plan to do so) - there is every likelihood that America's appetite for foreign cash will surge again.
Most are convinced that there is no military solution in Afghanistan and they know that public opinion, especially in time of great economic hardship, has no appetite for such operations.
The third lever is financial. Investment demand has slackened not because interest rates are too high, but because there is not enough risk appetite within the banking system.
It will require leadership skills of a high order to persuade voters that in order to prevent national decline we must curb our appetite for more and more public spending.
But China's strategy in the country was mostly focused on business development, and on satiating its vast appetite for energy and minerals.
By the time the eurozone governments intervened decisively, most French and German banks had largely unloaded their holdings at a loss to hedge funds and other investors with a greater appetite for risk.
At some point, the yields on bonds and mortgages will be high enough that investors' appetite for yield will balance their fear of exchange-rate depreciation.

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