thirsting

Example Sentences

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Thirsting for a run, Roberts replaced Pujols with pinch-runner Billy McKinney.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Thirsting to rekindle their usual physicality after being outhustled and outmuscled during a two-game losing streak, the Wizards pummeled the deplorable Knicks inside Thursday.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

Thirsting for Occidental wisdom, he escapes Asia, arrives impoverished in London, where he shrinks from bustle, rain, cupidity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thirsting for status-by-schooling, they assume that any U.S. school advertising itself abroad is Government-approved.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thirsting for the coming battle, the troops left the court-yard; each heart swelling with the soul-stirring conviction, that a great and important moment was at hand.

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von