(1) Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor, was desperate for some reassuring morsel to feed the bankers hungrily circling the floundering pound.
(2) Their home, however, also happens to sit atop the Marcellus shale bed, believed to be one of the world's richest, which is being eyed hungrily by oil and gas companies lobbying the governor, Andrew Cuomo, to allow them to frack.
(3) Those changes now mean that investors across the region – and beyond – are eyeing Burma hungrily.
(4) It gloops hungrily along, oozing cash like a snail trail, digesting every politician and policymaker in its path.
(5) The camera still feasts on his beauty now that he's pushing 60 as hungrily it would on any 1955 MGM contract starlet.
(6) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?
(7) The club, facing another red tax bill, accepted the investment hungrily.
(8) But this time the Tory tiger feasted on the fresh carcass of the Ukip vote while Labour and the Lib Dems could only prowl hungrily on the sidelines, and received a few deep scratches from the Tories’ claws while they were doing so.
(9) Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia’s president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
(10) United were hungrily looking for more goals when Cole caught them with too many men upfield nine minutes from time, an endearing trait that Moyes would be unwise to try to stamp out.
(11) Gaskell was already hungrily plotting the biography, which she convinced herself was an act of charity.
(12) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
(13) We meet at her agent's office, where she's just finished an ideas meeting, and she buzzes hungrily between thoughts.
(14) Having decided to become a writer I read hungrily, for pleasure as much as to learn.
(15) In the pre-match build-up, Inter manager Jose Mourinho has been busily peddling his unique brand of nonsensical waffle masquerading as profundity and as usual the press pack have been hungrily lapping it up.
(16) Lessing, for her part, fell hungrily on the theatre, music, museums, but in other ways found London frighteningly flattened, people's energies leeched away by rationing and having to cope.
Hungry
Definition:
(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(2) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(4) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
(5) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(6) Some people say that anyone who wants to help homeless, hungry people should just make a financial donation to an established charity.
(7) We Libyans are just as hungry for a just and accountable government as our Tunisian brothers and sisters.
(8) Stevan Jovetic is hungry for more after his match-winning double strike for Manchester City against Liverpool.
(9) The relationship of the "digestive" and "hungry" electrical activities of the duodenum depended both on the compared type of potential and on the compared time periods.
(10) In addition, baseline levels of neural activity in attack suppressing brain areas prior to any brain stimulation were found to decrease when the cats were hungry and killing was facilitated and neural activity increased when the cats were on ad lib.
(11) Everyone's hungry and cold, they wouldn't even let people go to the toilet.
(12) These are all countries with people who go hungry but, were humanitarian need the only criterion for giving food aid, you might expect to see more countries from west Africa higher on the list, points out Rob Bailey, a fellow at Chatham House.
(13) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
(14) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
(15) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(16) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(17) The offering of food to the hungry animal, and subsequent brief feeding periods, were associated with marked accentuation of this theta activity.
(18) The samples from recently fed animals contained 28% less serotonin than those from hungry ones.
(19) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
(20) There is of course a case for ensuring that children do not go hungry and thus lack concentration.