famish

1 When he asks if she is hungry she gives a polite non-answer that betrays that she is famished.

2 Granted creative control, these directors made personal movies that invigorated the black audience, who accounted for 25 percent of all ticket sales at the time but were famished for stories with multidimensional characters.

3 If it were eating it would be the gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.

4 The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety.

5 Although he himself was famished, he refused to let his frog go hungry.

6 At 10:31, a regular shows up, famished and with a low-blood-sugar temper tantrum, ready to go.

7 As soon as I purged, I would be famished again and exhausted from the pure physical violence of repeated vomiting.

8 The migrants pause in the region, famished and nearly half their starting weight, to spend about a month scarfing down crab eggs to power them through the last leg of their journey.

9 Afterward, both of us were famished but neither wanted to cook.

10 In a caption to a series showing stick-thin, famished children during the Biafran War, he said: “It was beyond war, it was beyond journalism, it was beyond photography, but not beyond politics.”

11 This, tradition has it, was the “pottage of lentils” in Genesis, for which a famished Esau relinquished his birthright.

12 It was well after lunch when I left her room, but I went to the cafeteria anyway, famished and emotional.

13 In taking the boat, most of the canoes, and some of the weapons from his famished troops, Orellana had displayed, Gonzalo said, “the greatest cruelty that ever faithless men have shown.”

14 A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds- barred approach to capturing it.

15 As curious as we are famished, we filch from each other’s plates: Spaghetti with tuna roe bottarga!

16 The hot juices ran down her chin and dripped onto her cloak, but she was too famished to care.

17 The train finally deposited a smelly and famished Feldman in the Italian city of Padua — just as its famous Arena Chapel was about to close.

18 Hungry after a long journey by rail, famished fans brought pre-game snacks to enjoy before kickoff.

19 The farther north he got, the more famished his notions.

20 Though the hobbits ate, as only famished hobbits can eat, there was no lack.

1 使挨饿

starve hunger

2 使饥饿

hunger starve

3 受苦

inflictive passion smoke languish tribulate inflict hang heavy

4 感到饥饿

hunger

5 使饿死

starve

6 饥饿

empty hungry esurient sharp-set hunger famine starvation starve go hungry hollow unfed starveling esurience esuriency wolf hungriness

7 挨饿

clem starveling starve belly-pinched starvation hunger dine with Duke Humphrey fly light

8 饿

peckish

9 饿死

starvation starve