hunger

Example Sentences

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But young people, who witnessed a decade of rapid economic expansion in China, have a hunger to grow, said Dai, also author of the book "One Person Company".

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Anthropic is turning to Amazon.com as it looks to satisfy its hunger for artificial-intelligence compute power, and that’s good news for suppliers to the tech giant’s chip ecosystem.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

"They don't have the energy reserves necessary to complete the entire migration back to the Arctic, so they may be driven into the bay by hunger," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

One can readily sense the intellectual hostility to middlebrow culture, which in England dated back before the existence of a large and prosperous middle class with a hunger for culture.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French