noun
definition
A need or compelling desire for food.
definition
(by extension) Any strong desire.
example
I have a hunger to win.
Examples of hunger in a Sentence
He grew weak from hunger and thirst.
Her hunger and thirst satisfied, she was getting sleepy again.
You will only hunger for me.
The hunger in his eyes increased her pulse.
Horror and hunger surged through her.
It was hunger that later returned Dean to reality.
Maybe it was hunger or the pleasant company.
Hunger pulsed through Xander.
They suffered hunger, cold and misery, and were in constant fear of death, till the spring of 1868 when they were relieved by the British troops.
She didn't know why, couldn't get control of either her emotions or the hunger in her blood.
There is no doubt that the spread of the practice is connected with the ban imposed in Mohammedan countries on the use of alcoholic beverages, and to some extent with the long religious fasts of the Buddhists, Hindus and Moslems, in which opium is used to allay hunger.
It had long been a fundamental principle of Indian government that the sepoy would always be true to his salt - knowing, as Macaulay wrote in 1840, that there was not another state in India which would not, in spite of the most solemn promises, leave him to die of hunger in a ditch as soon as he had ceased to be useful.
Hunger, plague, the treachery of his captains and internal discontent at last forced him to surrender (November 1405).
He could not, he said, bear even to let the wind blow on her; and now she must suffer cold and hunger; she must beg; she must be beaten; "yet," he added, "I must, I must do it."
After 15 months (134-133) he reduced by hunger the6000-8000Numantine soldiers, much as Caesar afterwards reduced Alesia in Gaul.
These prisoners do not seem to have felt any of the severer pangs of hunger, for they were not tempted to eat their candles.
Thus the object of hunger is not the pleasure of eating but food; hunger is therefore, strictly speaking, no more " interested " than benevolence; granting that the pleasures of the table are an important element in the happiness at which self-love aims, the same at least may be said for the pleasures of love and sympathy.
On the one hand, he speaks of moral approbation as derived from " humanity and benevolence," while expressly recognizing, after Butler, that there is a strictly disinterested element in our benevolent impulses (as also in hunger, thirst, love of fame and other passions).
The volcanic ash frequently proves extremely harmful, destroying the pastures so that the sheep and cattle die of hunger and disease.
The comparison of the will unable to act between two equally balanced motives to an ass dying of hunger between two equal and equidistant bundles of hay is not found in his works, and may have been invented by his opponents to ridicule his determinism.
The corpse of Louis XIV., left to servants for disposal, and saluted all along the road to Saint Denis by the curses of a noisy crowd sitting in the cabarets, celebrating his death by drinking more than their fill as a compensation for having suffered too much from hunger during his lifetimesuch was the coarse but sincere epitaph which popular opinion placed on the tomb of the Grand Monarque.
No one spoke for a while as they sliced the edge off their hunger.
You must die first. … an Oracle must be bound … for all eternity … You will never hunger for food nor thirst for water.
She took it, her insides quaking in anticipation and hunger.
Hunger for him—not just his blood—roared through her.
People stared, women in envy and hunger.
It wasn't anger she felt towards him but … hunger.
Darkyn played keep away, until she was drowning in heat, desire and the hot hunger that felt like it was going to consume her.
You need my blood and don't yet understand how to curb the hunger.
She felt centered and refreshed this morning, the newfound hunger for the blood of her mate sated for now.
How terrible it must be to hunger for things that belong to someone else – especially when one of those things is your own daughter.
The scent of an Immortal – a female one – made his hunger roar to life.
The Immortals were vulnerable, and Darkyn's hunger for power and control of the mortal world was not something Gabriel questioned.
Love is a craving hunger while it fills me to satiation like no mortal fare could ever satisfy.
Jackson held the goblet, mortified, yet he had never felt such a hunger, nay––lust, as he did for the contents.
Did they die here – from hunger?
He always fed at night, and hunger made his senses sharper, especially when he was surrounded by so many potential sources of dinner.
Desire and hunger, yes, but never the compulsion to be inside a particular woman.
If Xander didn't feed now, he was going to go on a rampage and slaughter half the apartment building to slake his hunger.
The skin around Xander's eye was softened in something other than amusement, the light in his eyes a combination of hunger – and warmth.
The Green Revolution transformed agriculture in a country where hunger is still an issue today.
The Art of Hunger undermines and illuminates our accepted notions about literature and throws an unprecendented light on Auster's own richly allusive writings.
I should have known better, but by this time hunger and weariness had so addled my brain that I took his advice.
There are also reports of a hunger strike by 51 detained afghanis that has since been broken up by the French authorities.
Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger.
With human wants, kind spirits may become feeble through hunger.
We looked a very sorry sight, covered in dirt and grime with hunger gnawing at our bellies.
But the other woman, satisfying her first pangs of hunger, was now bent rather low over her macaroni au gratin.
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Yet God has provided us with the capability of producing enough food to eradicate hunger from our planet.