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ADJECTIVE hungry COMPARATIVE hungrier SUPERLATIVE hungriest
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hungry English

Meaning hungry meaning

What does hungry mean?
Definitions in simple English

hungry

If you feel hungry, you want to eat something and your stomach feels empty. There are too many poor children who are always hungry.

hungry

feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food a world full of hungry people (= athirst, thirsty) (usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous athirst for knowledge hungry for recognition thirsty for informaton

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Simple sentences

Hungry and thirsty, we at last reached the inn.
They were very tired, hungry, and thirsty that night.
Give water to the thirsty and food to the hungry.
I was hungry and thirsty.
Many people in the world are hungry.
I eat because I'm hungry.
I'm not hungry.
I'm hungry because I haven't had lunch.
Tell her that I am hungry.
I am so hungry and lunch is not ready.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
When are we eating? I'm hungry!
I suppose you're hungry.
You can't be hungry. You've just had dinner.
I felt hungry.
He cannot be hungry; he has just had lunch.
When I got home, I was very hungry.
When I came home, I felt very hungry.
Do you know what it is like to be really hungry?
At a glance, he knew that the child was hungry.
However hungry you are, you must eat slowly.
I'm as hungry as a bear.

Movie subtitles

Why was Vasco da Gama so clearly hungry for money - hungry enough to kill for it?
There will be those who, I think, understandably, will argue that we humans should remain hidden in the great galactic tall grasses, because, of course, maybe they're hungry, for example, and would like some hors d'oeuves.
BARRY: Cooper, we all hungry, okay?
I don't get hungry till half past 12.
Later. hungry and broke.
Hank was kind and human, and our hero cold and hungry, and the beans smelled good and the coffee was steaming hot.
Dennin won't be joining us - he is no longer hungry. He lost his appetite due to envy!
In the enemy's country, hopelessly lost, helplessly cold and horribly hungry.
Around the Side Shows hungry and broke.
Cold and hungry, she is stymied by hallucinations.
He's a hungry.
From Miss Friede. so you won't go hungry!
It's tough enough when you're hungry all day.
You must be hungry.
In the enemy's country hopelessly lost, helplessly cold and horribly hungry.
I didn't know, but that you might be hungry.
She looked like a hungry animal.
Her face took on a horrible expression like that of a hungry beast.
I'm hungry.
I'm hungry. I didn't eat in three days.
I ain't hungry.
Why, I just ain't hungry, Ma.
My little boy was hungry.
Did you hear that hungry pussycat back there?
We haven't met but don't let that stop you if you're hungry.
Then I package them and get them ready for distribution to all the hungry kids in the yard the next day.
We're pretty hungry. Can you do it?
Come on! I only eat bugs when I'm really hungry, like when my mom sleeps in and forgets to pack my lunch.
I'm wet, I'm cold and I'm hungry.
Just cold and wet and hungry.
Yes, I'm hungry.
BARRY: Cooper, we all hungry, okay? But you got to focus on the plan right now.
Hungry?
Last night I was too hungry to sleep. and tonight, when I get the wrinkles out of my gut, they think up wiring duty.
And-- And now I'm hungry.

News and current affairs

No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.
Meanwhile, a billion people go hungry each day.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
Soldiers cannot keep peace among desperately hungry people.
Energy-hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.
While the Wahhabis could yet be bribed again with oil money, the sect's power-hungry judges eagerly await the next beheading, stoning, or lashing in Riyadh's public square.
Nothing would be wiser for the world's rich countries than to fulfill their pledges to the world's poor, hungry and disease-ridden peoples.
The number of hungry people depends much less on climate than on demographics and income.
The Trans-Baikal region could relatively easily expand ties with the resource-hungry Asian economies, to the benefit of all.
True to form, he recently announced a big increase in US food aid - good for the hungry poor and good for American farmers.
As a result, China's economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
This requires that a more rational strategy be mapped out in the planning of major industrial projects and energy-hungry enterprises.
Everywhere there are startups, innovations, and young entrepreneurs hungry for profits.
In a hungry and poor rural economy, as China was in the 1970's and as most of Africa is today, a key starting point is to raise farm productivity.
They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.
Whereas Japan, the US, and Europe are competent at research into what is almost known, the cutting-edge science is more likely to emerge in an economy hungry for resources and infrastructure, such as China.
This absence of animating purpose, of faith in the future, has made us hungry for our past.
Moreover, poor households have reduced food consumption, with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization estimating that nearly one billion people are hungry and malnourished.
Lifting subsistence farmers out of their precarious position would be equivalent to halving the number of hungry people.
Her political style is both refreshing and relevant, because she comes across as sincere and forthright at a time when the public is hungry for moral leadership.
The armed forces operate a parallel economy, with its own mines, farms, and factories, though many soldiers and junior officers still go hungry.

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