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Definition of Hungrily
1. Adverb. In the manner of someone who is very hungry. "He pounced on the food hungrily"
Definition of Hungrily
1. adv. In a hungry manner; voraciously.
Definition of Hungrily
1. Adverb. In a hungry manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hungrily
1. hungry [adv] - See also: hungry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hungrily
Literary usage of Hungrily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"The ladies gathered hungrily about the tables and ate like good trencher-women.
We retired after supper to an adjoining room, and sat down in a most ..."
2. The "goldfish": Being the Confessions of a Successful Man by Arthur Cheney Train (1914)
"The pot is covered with them, layer on layer— buzzing hungrily; eager to get as
near as possible to the honey ..."
3. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"The thing to be hungrily sought is beauty of expression. When a poet is seeking
that he will be content to say, very humbly, with Robert Bridges, ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1898)
"Then through the \ hungrily, hungrily SHE HELD IT TO HER BREAST. and as the
knowledge came to her, it was as though someone was cutting bits of her heart ..."
5. The Village: Russian Impressions by Ernest Poole (1918)
"I breathed hungrily the fresh piney air that came out of the woods. ... We drank
our tea and hungrily devoured boiled potatoes, greasy meat balls and big ..."
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