How to Use hunger in a Sentence

hunger

1 of 2 noun
  • She has been a leader in the fight against world hunger.
  • Her students have a genuine hunger for knowledge.
  • One sandwich wasn't enough to satisfy his hunger.
  • Odds are, the hunger sticks around.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Young wants to see hunger across the field.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The rules might change, but hunger will not.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Just a hunger to please and love and be loved.
    — John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • My life don’t have to be all hunger and silty beans.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The hunger comes on a schedule.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Will the hunger be worse than before?
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
  • Will the hunger be worse than before?
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
  • The hunger turns each man inward.
    — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Solve world hunger, kill all the people.
    — Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Others do not ask but prowl and smell of hunger.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Skills without hunger won’t take you far.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At lunchtime, hunger overrides my qualms.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And the fat in dairy may also help keep hunger in check.
    — Outside, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There’s clearly a hunger right now for Miller’s work.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Your body gets hunger signals from seeing and smelling food.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 26 Oct. 2025
  • People arrive on the trails as that hunger climbs.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Gauger’s team frames hunger as a skills gap and a dignity gap.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If hunger hits before lunch, choose a snack with protein and fiber.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Thousands more fell to disease, hunger and abuse in the hellish camp.
    — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
  • This can create a hunger cycle.
    — Ashley Olivine, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The best snacks to curb hunger combine protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
    — Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2026
  • What continues to drive your hunger?
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This time, the emergency is hunger.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Eating them this way could even help keep your hunger at bay and your blood sugar steady.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Some people might say lust, with all the hunger imagery, but love sounds good, too.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • Kimmel is not the only one stepping it up to help fight hunger.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025

hunger

2 of 2 verb
  • His eyes hungered over earth and found no sign.
    — Roey Leonardi, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Someone who sold himself as a common man but hungered to live — above his means, if necessary — like a high roller.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2018
  • There are those who believe religion needs no experiments to prove its worth, and those who hunger for evidence.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • My heart hungered for that intimate encounter with the disappearing ice.
    — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Researchers found that classical music had an initial calming effect, but the mutts soon hungered for other tunes.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Certain readers will hunger as well for sharper and more debatable insights about range management and the West.
    — Nathan Deuel, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • After the last word, the reader must hunger for more, a sensation that always exists in opposition to the fullness of the work.
    — The Editors, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But all seemingly agreed that the Yard Goats have injected pride into a city that has been hungering for a team of its own.
    — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Those stories whet the appetites for success of others and inspire them - and all of us - to continue hungering and working for more.
    — Aegis Staff Report, baltimoresun.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The wedding finale earns its happy tears, its couples palpably hungering for each other.
    — The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Since then, it’s served as a symbol of neglect in a neighborhood that has hungered for private investment, retail and foot traffic.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Day now hungered for action — demonstrations, marches and newspaper articles were no longer enough.
    — Karen Armstrong, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Stranger Things 3 debuted on July 4, which means the bingers are already hungering to know what comes next.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2019
  • There would be many other payoffs for fans who’d hungered for years to see America’s top soccer league come to San Diego.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
  • There’ll always be places like Planet Doom, though, and the people who hunger for that are the people who will most unreservedly love the movie.
    — Mallory Pickett, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Ever since the dawn of Jack White, artists who hunger to reassert the power of rock in a rockless age have tended to sound like reactionary young coots.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Elected to lead the biggest city in the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio often seems to hunger for a brighter spotlight.
    — William Neuman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Hoping to make amends, Adonis throws Damian work as a sparring partner for the champ, though his old friend still hungers for the title shot he was denied.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Couples should seek to change up their dating routine, as all zodiac signs will hunger for variety with this sign-asteroid combination.
    — Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • This will hit the spot for viewers and possibly awards-bestowing bodies who hunger for stories of audacious, norm-shattering women.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But a screw-up that caused the landmark film to enter the public domain has provided some room for other authors to put their own spin on the undead hungering for human flesh.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • The liberal sees his virtue in speaking up for the underdog, hungering for social justice, showing a spirit of empathy.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • The populace rightly hungers for the most accurate and current information available.
    — Paul Farhi, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But in the days leading up to Christmas, some who hunger for time with relatives are striking deals with family members to hole up in their individual homes.
    — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Our society is hungering for spirituality but satisfying this hunger in all the wrong places.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • At a time when people are hungering for community, Wrexham offers hope not only for sports fans but also for anyone looking for connection.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The serial worrier in me can’t resist issuing a stern caution to those who hunger for the modern-day Transaction Game as much as (or more than) the game itself.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 30 June 2018
  • This nonchalance, the embrace of obliteration, is the author’s attempt to put her thumb in the eye of white readers who hunger for this kind of sentimental representation.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Offscreen, the two men were good sports—friendly, athletic, devoted to decent causes, and, like most major stars, a little hard to know, keeping something back in a bid to leave us hungering for more.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025

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