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- noun Plural form of
hunger . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hunger .
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Examples
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But this bright season ended quite as suddenly as it had begun; and when these great "hungers" -- as those veterans were entitled who dealt most freely with the marvellous -- had laid their heads together to produce and confirm another guinea's worth of fiction, the London press would have none of it.
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A refusal to “eat” (seek to possess, control) that for which one hungers is a way of honoring that which is eternally beautiful in the world: “We want to eat all the other objects of desire.
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A refusal to “eat” (seek to possess, control) that for which one hungers is a way of honoring that which is eternally beautiful in the world: “We want to eat all the other objects of desire.
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein, Simone Weil & Alan Sondheim 2006
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Thus, to read the letters of Bayard Taylor is to meet a poet who bewails the lack of poetic material in America and who "hungers," as he says, for the romance and beauty of other lands.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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One of the lessons that Senator Clinton’s campaign has shown conclusively is that there is an extraordinary chunk of the population that thirsts, that hungers, that is salivating for a ticket where at least one member has the XX chromosome.
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Once your hungers are sated, you will be called up, table by table, and I will bestow your new marks individually, according to your previous rank.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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The storm tries to fill the emptiness, but the more it hungers, the deeper the emptiness becomes.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The hungers started, hunger for food, for life, for sex.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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Freedom has to be disinterested: free from hungers, preferences, drives.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The real divide is between a popular protest movement, fed on Facebook and Twitter, that hungers for a change of direction, and an entrenched governmental system that clings precariously to the status quo.
13 – review 2011
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