thirst

“There’s a big thirst for that,” Franklin said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

It also said that “mild to moderate dehydration can build gradually across the day for most people, often without realizing it, and thirst is not always a reliable signal.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

They are very different forwards but what is identical about both of them is their thirst for goals.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Monroe’s personal legacy is like a charm bracelet hung with more unsubstantiated rumors than genuine facts, but one undeniable trait was her thirst to defy the world’s expectations.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026

I thought, “Once this creature stood here. It was alive, had flesh and hair. It had its own smell. It could feel hunger and thirst and pain. It could enjoy the early morning sun.”

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

And one which has a big job ahead: Taking the food orders and quenching the thirsts of millions of visitors who will flock to the Paris Olympics this July.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural pests because of their unquenchable thirsts and splashy bathroom habits: when nature calls, these bugs launch droplets of their watery pee and create puddles of disease-causing waste.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2023

Their reservoir partially inside the Holy Cross Wilderness, between Leadville and Minturn, would sacrifice natural processes for the purpose of sustaining population growth and a development boom - harnessing nature to slake human thirsts.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2020

Improv musician Marc Rebillet uses a loop machine and strong WiFi to quench our thirsts.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

They all rested like that, absolutely quiet, drinking more slowly now that their thirsts had been quenched, eyes vaguely fixed on shadow-casting objects downhill.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Suddenly, Team USA was down to one out and the baseball world got the matchup it thirsted for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Though both won races across all of alpine’s disciplines, Vonn thirsted for the speed of downhill and its little sister super-G, in which she posted 71 of her 82 World Cup wins.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023

And yet we found shelter within it, we pondered our lives and the lives of others, thirsted, slept.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022

Chinese officials have openly thirsted for him to be punished.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

There were deep pools of knowledge in the dusty volumes quietly shelved in the libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

I saw thousands of Saudi men and women, young and old, thirsting for the sort of recreation that until very recently they had to travel abroad to enjoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

"That two undocumented migrants were the only ones who physically risked themselves to help the victim of a pack thirsting for horror leaves much food for thought and a series of lessons," Mayor Rey said.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

The pattern could leave millions of Italians surrounded by water now, but, in the summer, thirsting for a drop.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2023

After all the uncertainty of the pandemic, people are thirsting to hear a cause, a vision, a plan for moving on.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

We slipped in and out of wakefulness, wincing at the soreness in our muscles, and thirsting for more of that tart lemonade.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall