hungrily

Example Sentences

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Hungrily they trudge to their upland hunting grounds at the end of winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hungrily, my siblings gather around Pa, our bowls in hand.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Hungrily they gathered round, pushing and scrambling like swine about the trough.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Hungrily, Andeg dropped and struck, hard, killing the little animal and quickly eating it.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Hungrily, defiantly, she pressed the girl to her; the stars in the lucid heavens of her eyes were soft and gentle and caressing.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham