(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.
Thirsty
Definition:
(n.) Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
(n.) Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
Example Sentences:
(1) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(2) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(3) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(4) In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend.
(5) She said that on one occasion she arrived at 10am to find her mother in bed, hungry, thirsty and with the curtains drawn.
(6) Rooted as they are in Minnesota, many in the the Somali Muslim community are alarmed at a US attorney-led program that they believe singles them out as more blood thirsty than other ethnic or religious groups, and makes them vulnerable to surveillance.
(7) Using a linear analogue scale, parents rated children in the study group to be more comfortable, less hungry, and less thirsty compared with the control patients (P = 0.004, 0.002, 0.0001, respectively).
(8) Any heavy rainfall will be welcome news for thirsty California, parched for the last four years by a historic dry period.
(9) The tachykinins eledoisin, substance P and kassinin were administered by pulse intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections to cats made thirsty by ICV angiotensin II, 100 ng per cat.
(10) Thirsty cats, offered a choice between distilled water and quinine solution, preferred the latter to distilled water and accepted quinine concentrations greater than those they accepted in control sessions when drinking quinine solution was rewarded by hypothalamic stimulation, whereas drinking distilled water was not.
(11) Over the years, residents were paid $1 a foot of sod to tear out their lawns and replace them with less thirsty varieties of grass, or sand.
(12) Other planes were stacked up, circling in the air, packed with impatient, hungry and thirsty passengers, waiting for parking slots to open.
(13) The rats, however, did not exhibit preservation in the T-maze, and similarly to control rats suppressed drinking 0.1 M lithium chloride even when thirsty.
(14) It has previously been described that water intake in thirsty rats require higher doses of dopamine (DA) D-1 and D-2 antagonists to be attenuated than operant lever-pressing with water as reward.
(15) We found that when rats were thirsty, they were not interested in running for concentrated salt solutions; when they were rendered salt hungry by mineralocorticoid treatment in addition to the thirst, or even without thirst, they ran vigorously for salty tasting solutions, as high as 24% NaCl.
(16) Viticulture has history here: the industry grew in the 12th century to meet the demands of thirsty pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago , which passes through Navarra.
(17) Thirsty coeliac ganglionectomized and sham operated rats consumed more of a novel fluid after a series of presentations, each followed by saline injection, than when apomorphine was injected or copper sulfate intragastrically intubated.
(18) A 2013 report by Kellogg’s found that 8,370 schools in England have pupils arriving at school hungry or thirsty every morning, and that hungry children lose the equivalent to one hour of learning time a day.
(19) Thirsty rats were used in order to determine whether a vinegar solution, which had been paired with an injection of lithium chloride, could block the formation of an association between a pentobarbital- and a lithium chloride-induced state.
(20) The peptide influenced neither water consumption in thirsty rats nor the pain threshold in a hot plate test.