hunger

After watching a competitor faint from hunger during a fight, she said, she insisted it was time to leave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"I'm praying that he will call off his hunger strike. He can fight for our children only when he's strong," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

“I came out with a lot of hunger coming out of that, and I was ready to attack the pro circuit,” Fery said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

"Before Ebola struck, millions were already facing conflict, hunger, displacement, weak basic services and limited healthcare," Tom Fletcher, head of the UN's humanitarian operations, said in a communique.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Its crimson eyes almost glow with hunger and its pupils flatten in anger.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

No one hungers for the bad old days—the infamous “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline ran just months before PS1 opened—but it’s hard not to be nostalgic for the art world of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Wong hungers for familiarity with her Chinese name, the memory of which has become so faint she calls upon her mother to repeat it to her.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

“Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song. Let us not sit back silently...”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

The series sticks with that impetus while expanding our view into the part of Ellie that hungers for family and true care.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023

Because she was not an animal, and she would not blindly chase her hungers....

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Malcom McLean, a New Jersey commercial shipper who championed the new idea of prepacking cargo into big metal boxes, hungered for a Pentagon contract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Election administrators in many states have long hungered for better access to federal information on citizenship status.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026

That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026

Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Though they were merely stories, I accepted them as true because I wanted to believe them, because I hungered for a different life, for something new.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

On top of that, investors hungering for a new CEO had hoped Cornell’s replacement would arrive from outside Target; instead, the board picked a 20-year company veteran.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025

It has also served as a watershed moment for the business-news landscape, making a group of internet influencers go-to sources for people hungering for news of FTX and SBF, as Bankman-Fried is known.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

“Mr. Saturday Night” Based on a 1992 movie, this musical features Billy Crystal returning to the role of Buddy Young Jr., a has-been comic who is hungering for a comeback and reconnecting with family.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

But after whetting my appetite, “Trayf” left me hungering for more substantive spiritual nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

They were her secret rebellion, her heart hungering, her little underground of one.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez