Hungry meaning in English

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Definition

to be hungry: to be in need of food, to have an empty stomach, to be starving idiom
Note, in English we use the verb to be before hungry.
hunger: desire or need for food, starvation, famine; desire noun

UK: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
US: Third World hunger is a terrible problem.

Examples

  • "Horatio : I am not hungry."
  • "Edward : Baby is hungry."
  • "Jean : Well, I'm very hungry, and since we don't eat dinner with Mamie, I suggest we go inside and at least we have a bite to eat, you know "miam miam"."
  • "Bruno: A little bit hungry."
  • "I'm hungry!"
  • "I'm hungry, man!"
  • "Bruno : I declare that I'm hungry."
  • "I am hungry!"
  • "Right now, I am so hungry I could die... again!"
  • "Horatio : Oleré is hungry too!"
  • "Horatio : I cannot think, I'm hungry!"
  • "Felt faint with hunger until the elderly French woman in the aisle seat next to me offered me a bite of her sardine sandwich."
  • "It was strange though, an hour after I ate, I was hungry again."
  • "I am so hungry I could eat an Eskimo."
  • "I've got 10 hungry people waiting for their sausages!"
  • "In early February, hungry pandas stormed the gates of their Beijing enclosure, presumably due to a bamboo shortage."

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