adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go hungry
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Many families are forced to go hungry .
hungry/greedy eyes (= showing that you want something very much )
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The men looked around the room with their greedy eyes.
ravenously hungry
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I was ravenously hungry .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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He is always hungry , and not only for food.
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It was always hungry , and now it was starving.
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They led a very hard life, always hungry , sometimes without food for several days.
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In my very earliest memories, I am hungry , always hungry.
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The boys ate everything and were always hungry .
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I was always hungry back then, six or seven times a day.
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We were always hungry and we were always broke.
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And if it turned out that he wouldn't, then dragons were always hungry and needed to be fed regularly.
how
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I didn't realize how hungry I was until I started eating, and my plate was soon empty.
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The guards dis-covered the body and ordered it carried out almost immediately, but the argument suggests how hungry we were.
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Robbie suddenly realised how hungry she was.
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The friar realised how hungry he was.
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The warm, delicious smell of home baking emanating from the kitchen made Beth realise just how hungry she was.
ravenously
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She'd refused the airline food, and now found herself ravenously hungry .
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We were anticipating the jellied meat and the sweet preserves, we were ravenously hungry .
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It's no good some one like me being told they can't have any more when you're still ravenously hungry .
really
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Not really hungry , she made a cheese sandwich and curled up in front of the television.
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The Plot A fox who was really hungry saw some grapes hanging from the top of a grapevine.
so
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I was so hungry I'd have eaten pork scratchings.
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I have been so hungry that I have cut the blood off from crackers and eaten them.
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I was so hungry that I could not cry.
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Reggie White has been so hungry for so many years.
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I was so hungry now I could hardly think.
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I was so hungry my mouth watered; my eyes drooped with fatigue.
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This winter perhaps there are fewer visitors, or they are not so hungry yet.
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Then he directed me to take off with my oh so hungry little camel.
still
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He was still hungry , but he was not in trouble.
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The granary ran low one day, while the masses were still hungry , so Ansovinus ordered the storehouse doors shut.
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We now produce enough food for everyone, yet a third of the world is still hungry .
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And if you are still hungry after that, here is something guaranteed to fill you up!
too
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Although Frankie had been dozing, he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time.
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Are you too hungry and vulnerable at any particular time?
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Sara did not reply; she was too hungry to spare any attention from her food.
very
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By the time the eggs hatch, she is very hungry indeed.
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At first we were very hungry and more energetic.
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Without an audience, but with a very hungry tummy, it wasn't long before Suzy began to eat properly.
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Again, Simpleton went to the little gray man for help; he found a very hungry man.
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I was very hungry so I began to eat something at once.
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And the squid is very , very hungry .
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She was cross with herself, and she was also very hungry , she'd had nothing much all day.
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It was probably hunger, and she supposed she ought to eat something, only she didn't feel very hungry .
■ NOUN
child
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He can still be seen on film in November 1921 in Saratov surrounded by hungry children .
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It feeds hungry children , gives medical care to the sick and provides housing to the elderly.
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A hungry child , hungry for love, acceptance, attention.
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The aroma of fish and bread will drift over the hungry children standing behind the barbed wire fence, watching, waiting.
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No hungry children shining shoes in the streets.
man
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Again, Simpleton went to the little gray man for help; he found a very hungry man.
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The little gray man: A magical forest-dweller, he changed into the thirsty man and then the hungry man.
mouth
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There's going to be another hungry mouth to feed out of your advertising budgets come October.
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I knew that when he walked he felt the hungry mouths beneath his boots.
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One could suggest that this is not a result of too many hungry mouths but problems with access to food.
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She whimpered, the wordless sound lost in their hungry mouths and mingled breath.
people
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How many hungry people might have been fed when he sold his material assets?
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What would you do if you had to feed hundreds of thousands of hungry people at a two-day party in January?
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I've just done the weekly shop for six hungry people-and yet again I feel shattered.
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The images of these hopeless, hungry people haunted her, filling her with outrage.
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It certainly has little to do with feeding hungry people .
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It will be defeated, because the West brings with it science; and science means bread for millions of hungry people .
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The reality of the world to hungry people is very different from what we know in the West.
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There are still millions of poor and hungry people .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mouth to feed/hungry mouth
talk about lazy/cheap/hungry etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hungry people crowded around the relief wagon for food.
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Hungry shoppers waited in line at the food counters.
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a hungry baby
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America's cities have hundreds of hungry and homeless people.
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Are you hungry ? Do you want a sandwich?
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I'm hungry - I didn't get any lunch today.
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If the crops fail again this year thousands of people will go hungry .
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My children are hungry , I need a job.
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We were really hungry after our long walk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first we were very hungry and more energetic.
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Evidently she had noticed that I was hungry , because she urged me several times to eat.
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For certain she would be hungry , like me.
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He was hungry for something, but did not know that.
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She was cross with herself, and she was also very hungry , she'd had nothing much all day.
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That bird looks lost and hungry .
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The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry , leaping flames.
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Those were hungry days, and the Fawcetts shared the spoils.