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HUNGRILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hungrily mean? 

HUNGRILY (adverb)
  The adverb HUNGRILY has 1 sense:

1. in the manner of someone who is very hungryplay

  Familiarity information: HUNGRILY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HUNGRILY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In the manner of someone who is very hungry

Synonyms:

hungrily; ravenously

Context example:

he pounced on the food hungrily

Pertainym:

hungry (feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food)


 Context examples 


Now, he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that our landlady had provided, I must discuss it while I eat, for I have not much time.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fully a score he could count, staring hungrily at him or calmly sleeping in the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The workers looked hungrily at him, and then jogged onwards upon their way in slow, lumbering Saxon style.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His gaze wandered often toward her lips, and he yearned for them hungrily.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once, glancing back, he saw the wolf licking hungrily his bleeding trail, and he saw sharply what his own end might be—unless—unless he could get the wolf.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Now I was ragged, wanting to sell Dora matches, six bundles for a halfpenny; now I was at the office in a nightgown and boots, remonstrated with by Mr. Spenlow on appearing before the clients in that airy attire; now I was hungrily picking up the crumbs that fell from old Tiffey's daily biscuit, regularly eaten when St. Paul's struck one; now I was hopelessly endeavouring to get a licence to marry Dora, having nothing but one of Uriah Heep's gloves to offer in exchange, which the whole Commons rejected; and still, more or less conscious of my own room, I was always tossing about like a distressed ship in a sea of bed-clothes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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