Use hunger in a sentence
Sentences starting with hunger
- Hunger was not with him, nor composure, nor speech, and when he twisted in frequent unquiet movements the heavy guns that he had not removed knocked against the table-legs. [13]
- Hunger has instituted researches on food such as no Liebig, no Academic Commission has ever recorded. [3]
- Hunger does not pain us much, but we are dreadfully weak. [5]
- Hunger asserted itself now, but there was nothing to eat. [5]
- Hunger was a new sensation, a delicious thing, too good to be broken by talking. [11]
- Hunger and external misery came not nigh them, still they had experienced a great change. [10]
- Hunger is the handmaid of genius --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. [5]
- Hunger and fatigue had conquered him. [5]
- Hunger began the French Revolution. [9]
- Hunger and misery and sickness and fright and sorrow, and I don't know what all, got so loaded into them that none of them were ever rightly their old selves after the siege. [5]
Sentences ending with hunger
- You don't know what trouble is--you don't know what misery is--nor hunger! [5]
- Her eyes were upon it now with the covetousness of thirst and hunger. [11]
- Lower down in the valley sprang a brooklet of which he knew, and hard by it grew various herbs and roots, with which he had often allayed his hunger. [10]
- Why should He smother one under heaps of gold, while He gave thousands of poor creatures too little to satisfy their hunger! [10]
- The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger. [5]
- A night of restless slumber, filled with dreams of feasting--wakings distressed with the gnawings of hunger. [5]
- He looked up, over his shoulder, and saw an apparition--a very allegory of Hunger! [5]
- But Grah was not lonely, nor did he hunger. [11]
- Another lingering dreary night--and hunger. [5]
- But the heat must be applied gradually, just as food must be given a little at a time to those perishing with hunger. [3]
Short sentences using hunger
- Protection against Hunger. [5]
Sentences containing hunger two or more times
- The judge turned to the woman again, and said, in a compassionate voice-- "'Tis a poor ignorant lad, and mayhap was driven hard by hunger, for these be grievous times for the unfortunate; mark you, he hath not an evil face--but when hunger driveth--Good woman! [5]
More example sentences with the word hunger in them
- I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
- You had passion, you had hunger of the body, but of love you did not know. [11]
- The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
- Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
- His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
- Animals, roasted whole, were placed on the table, and, when hunger was appeased, several courses of the rarest delicacies followed, celebrated in later times even among the Greeks under the name of "Persian dessert. [10]
- I knew it was the nest of some wild animal; but I was nearly dead with hunger and fatigue. [11]
- When their hunger was appeased, the wine flowed more freely, and each guest was decked with sweetly-smelling flowers, whose odor was supposed to add to the vivacity of the conversation. [10]
- I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. [5]
- She lifted him up, kissed him, and then asked the mother, who also greeted her, for a piece of bread, for her hunger was becoming intolerable. [10]
- But the French troops quite rightly did not consider that this suited them, since death by hunger and cold awaited them in flight or captivity alike. [2]
- He trusted, however, to the time that had passed since the kidnapping, and on Gering's hunger for treasure. [11]
- One must go to the Bois de Boulogne to see fashionable dressing, splendid equipages and stunning liveries, and to the Faubourg St. Antoine to see vice, misery, hunger, rags, dirt--but in the thoroughfares of Naples these things are all mixed together. [5]
- She wants you to particularly remember that there are no such things as hunger and thirst and pain. [5]
- He is about to enter the horse-car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching picture of misery, puts out her lean hand and begs for rescue from hunger and death. [5]
- I hadn't enough to eat, and I didn't know whether I'd die by hunger, or fever, or Indians--or snakes. [11]
- My knee at times was painful, and cold, hunger, and incessant watchfulness wore on me vastly. [11]
- She had no thought of hunger, or cold, or thirst, or suffering. [12]
- But at last their supplies ran out and starvation began its work; more fell by hunger than by the missiles of the enemy. [5]
- The poor drew their belts tighter, and the morsel of bread, distributed by the city to each individual, was no longer enough to quiet hunger and support life. [10]
- The next morning the worthy woman thought that hunger and reflection would have subdued the rebellious spirit. [6]
- No sooner had the sun begun to pit the snow hillocks than wild creatures came in from the mountains, haggard with hunger and hardship. [9]
- Good hope, but the prospects of hunger are awful. [5]
- So long that the hunger and thirst near drove me mad, and I recognized that I was getting very weak. [5]
- The smell of the food the Preobrazhenskis were eating and a sense of hunger recalled him from these reflections; he had to get something to eat before going away. [2]
- So it was that now she looked back pensively to the years she had spent within sight and sound of her handsome mother, and out of the hunger of her own spirit she had come to idealize her memory. [11]
- Do you think that many of them did not know hunger and want long before that cruel war was over? [9]
- It is clear that many instinctive desires, such as that of hunger, are in their nature of short duration; and after being satisfied, are not readily or vividly recalled. [1]
- I can hardly tell you how I hunger to hear some opinion besides my own, and how I have sometimes desponded, and almost despaired, because there was no one to whom to read a line, or of whom to ask a counsel. [14]
- The faces that surrounded Jim were thin with hunger, and the murder that had been committed by the chief had, as its origin, the foolish replies of the Hudson's Bay Company's man to their demand for supplies. [11]
- The cause was sufficient; he had not tasted food for forty-eight hours, and he could not endure the misery of his hunger in idle hiding. [5]
- You will give something to the beggars, and "reverently kiss the tails" of such cows as pass along, for these cows are peculiarly holy, and this act of worship will secure you from hunger for the day. [5]
- The hermit endures solitude, hunger, cold, and manifold perils, to content his autocrat, who prefers these things, and prayer and contemplation, to money or to any show or luxury that money can buy. [5]
- But no medical skill could keep cold and hunger and bad food, and, probably enough, desperate homesickness in some of the feebler sort, from doing their work. [3]
- If a man shivered in fear, or staggered from weakness, or for very hunger turned sick, he was marked as a victim, and despite his protests was huddled away with the real victims to die the awful death. [11]
- After he had satisfied his hunger, he thanked the shepherd, and offered him one of the groschen which the fish had given him, but the old man refused it. [10]
- At last Sally, realising his proud defiance of hunger, offered him a little lump of pemmican and a biscuit, and with a grunt he took it from her hands and ate it. [11]
- She felt that rather would she defy the prowling panthers, the night-chill, hunger and thirst, than appear again before Dame Dorothea, the senator, and Marthana, with this guilt on her soul; and the flying Miriam was one of the goblin forms that had terrified Paulus. [10]
- The scanty provisions ran out, hunger was added to the pangs of thirst and weariness, and here and there in the straggling file discontent smouldered and angry undertone was heard. [9]
- But hunger is pride's master; so, as the evening drew near, he made an attempt at another farmhouse; but here he fared worse than before; for he was called hard names and was promised arrest as a vagrant except he moved on promptly. [5]
- Neither hunger, thirst, poverty, grief, hatred, contempt, nor persecution could drive the Mormons from their faith or their allegiance; and even the thirst for gold, which gleaned the flower of the youth and strength of many nations was not able to entice them! [5]
- I knew a place where they were not thicker than the poor man's plaster; they were spread so thin upon the crust that they were better fitted to draw out hunger than to satisfy it. [4]
- Mr. Smythe's sore place was healed, his hunger for revenge was satisfied. [5]
- The bird pours out its song unheard and unheeded; but, in time, hunger and thirst assail the creature, and its song grows plaintive and feeble and finally ceases--the bird dies. [5]
- How we made our way, benumbed with hunger and cold, to the banks of the Wabash, I know not. [9]
- For man is only man, and hunger is a cruel thing. [11]
- Denisov was out of sorts both because of the rain and also from hunger (none of them had eaten anything since morning), and yet more because he still had no news from Dolokhov and the man sent to capture a "tongue" had not returned. [2]
- For her gifts of place or fortune she puts some impossible hunger in the soul of the victim which leads him at last to his own destruction. [11]
- With a growl of mingled reassurance and hunger, he lifted down the iron bar from the shutters. [11]
- We almost perish of hunger and thirst, when we might be so happy if only we would be satisfied with apples and pears! [10]
- His brother, perishing of consumption, hunger, thirst, blazing heat, drowning rains, loss of sleep, lack of exercise, was persistently faithful and circumstantial with his diary from the first day to the last--an instance of noteworthy fidelity and resolution. [5]
- Hence, "the sight of another person enduring hunger, cold, fatigue, revives in us some recollection of these states, which are painful even in idea. [1]
- Klea had not observed Irene's long absence since, as we know, shortly after her sister had set out, overpowered by hunger and fatigue she had fallen asleep. [10]
- As I feel now, I do not think anything could persuade me; but you cannot tell what you will do when you are reduced by hunger and your mind wandering. [5]
- The French did not need to be informed of the fact that half the prisoners--with whom the Russians did not know what to do--perished of cold and hunger despite their captors' desire to save them; they felt that it could not be otherwise. [2]
- Although he had not been told it, he realised that, indirectly, hunger was the cause of the crime and might easily become the cause of another; for their tempers were sharper even than their appetites. [11]
- Then, neither hunger, nor thirst, nor fatigue, nor deferred hope, nor monotonous disappointment, nor leaden-footed lapse of time can conquer the hunter's patience or weaken the joy of his quest or cool the splendid rage of his desire. [5]
- Three days and nights of toil and hunger in the cave were not to be shaken off at once, as Tom and Becky soon discovered. [5]
- Meanwhile the sun mounted higher and higher: she wandered from rock to rock in search of a shady spot and a spring of water, but none was to be found, and she was tormented with violent thirst and aching hunger. [10]
- But other foes more deadly than the angry heathen came, and they were called Hunger and Loneliness. [11]
- But she who mocks what is sacred, and tramples holy customs under foot, shall be accursed, execrated, given over to want, hunger, disease, death! [10]
- Here are the mills that grind food for its hunger, and "is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? [3]
- It was a mere hunger for notoriety. [5]
- Their hunger had made them dangerous. [11]
- A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pleasant home and his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, and death. [5]
- He said the longest of her careers as they now stood gave her forty-two years to live, and her shortest one twenty-nine, and that both were charged with grief and hunger and cold and pain. [5]
- It was very little, but even hunger was forgotten in the strange tranquillity that crept over her senses. [12]
- They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too. [5]
- The house-keeper, she knew, was calling her to breakfast, and the bit of dry bread she had taken with her was amply sufficient to satisfy her hunger. [10]
- Her companion, as it were, anticipated her strongest wishes--to satisfy her hunger and to change her dress. [10]
- The passion of it was on you as it was on us, as if to teach us that hunger for happiness is robbery, and that the covetous desire of man is not the will of the gods. [11]
- It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. [5]
- To feed this insatiable hunger, the abstracts, the reviews, do their best. [6]
- Could not the infinite possibilities of it fill the hunger of any soul? [4]
- Now ever once in four or five dayes, Pocahontas with her attendants, brought him so much provision, that saved many of their lives, that els for all this had starved with hunger. [4]
- He controlled his impatience to learn the particulars concerning his friend's fate until Bias had partially satisfied his hunger. [10]
- It is where I go when I hunger for companionship, some one to look at, some one to talk to. [5]
- The dogs were hungry, they whined about him and nosed his busy hands; but he took no time to feed them nor to satisfy his own hunger. [13]
- It's the hunger--the hunger--the hunger in me. [11]
- But cold, wet, hunger, want of rest, and lack of any place in which to lay her aching head, soon brought her thoughts back to the point whence they had strayed. [12]
- Although perishing with hunger, he brought it in its integrity and put it into the captain's hand. [5]
- Hopeless, sad-eyed misery, hunger, feverish anxiety, desperation, then; thankfulness, serenity, joy too deep for utterance now. [5]
- Mitigate your worst hunger with some bread and salt, and then my mother's cabbage-stew will not only satisfy you, but will be enjoyed with calm appreciation. [10]
- The miseries of hunger made the bird willing to eat raw flesh, since it could get no other food, and it began to pick remnants of meat from sheep skins hung out on the fences to dry. [5]
- He saw the hunger in the lad's eyes as they swept over the breakfast-table, still heavy with uneaten breakfast--bacon, nearly the whole of an omelette, and rolls, toast, marmalade and honey. [11]
- She would rather hunger and thirst, than be present at such a banquet again. [10]
- One day, when hunger and thirst were making their sure inroad; upon the men's strength and spirits, a floating barrel was seen at a distance. [5]
- The appeasement of hunger and thirst was now become a problem to him, for his employers at Beauharnais had given him a month's notice because of certain irregularities which had come to their knowledge. [11]
- Wretched nest of human vermin about the fountain--rags, dirt, sunken cheeks, pallor of sickness, sores, projecting bones, dull, aching misery in their eyes and ravenous hunger speaking from every eloquent fibre and muscle from head to foot. [5]
- Thus the ready hospitality of the poor, which passed over the heads of Tom and me as we ate bread and onions and potatoes with a ravenous hunger. [9]
- Next he satisfied his own hunger, fed Ring and Whitie and, with them curled beside him, composed himself to await sleep. [13]
- At seven o'clock his hunger was wolfish; and still his mind was not made up. [5]
- The satisfaction of his hunger and the wine rendered the captain still more lively and he chatted incessantly all through dinner. [2]
- No fever in his hands, no headache, only the sore skull, so well and tightly bandaged but a wonderful thirst, and an intolerable hunger. [11]
- Towards the afternoon, her grandfather complained bitterly of hunger. [12]
- He turned his head wistfully, he was so faint with hunger. [11]
- He raised his head from his hands, a hunger of desire in his face. [11]
- The newspaper may have fostered--it has not created--this hunger for publicity. [4]
- I believe he has been trying to make us amenable by supplying us badly with food, just as falcons are trained by hunger. [10]
- On the other hand, the desire to satisfy hunger, or any passion such as vengeance, is in its nature temporary, and can for a time be fully satisfied. [1]
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