desperately hungry
Frequency: 6.838.2 per million words
Extremely hungry, with a sense of urgency.
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Examples (10)
- After trekking for hours, they were desperately hungry.
- The lost hikers became desperately hungry after two days without food.
- She felt desperately hungry after missing both breakfast and lunch.
- The children, having played all morning, were desperately hungry by noon.
- He was so desperately hungry that he could eat a horse.
- A long day of physical labor made him desperately hungry.
- They arrived at the camp desperately hungry and exhausted.
- The aroma of the food made her feel desperately hungry.
- Even after a small snack, I was still desperately hungry.
- The refugees were desperately hungry after days of travel.