Strong desire for something (not food or drink)

Usage examples of hunger.

I cannot contravene the order of knights errant, about whom I know it is true, not having read anything to the contrary, that they never paid for their lodging or anything else in any inn where they stayed, because whatever welcome they receive is owed to them as their right and privi-lege in return for the unbearable hardships they suffer as they seek adventures by night and by day, in winter and in summer, on foot and on horseback, suffering thirst and hunger, heat and cold, and exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the discomforts on earth.

In spite of his hunger, Alec found it difficult to draw his eyes from the paintings.

The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.

At first they had been ashamed, because they were not used to begging but hunger had compelled them.

An unmistakeable yearning flooded Aurora, along with an unfamiliar hunger she could only call desire.

Once feeding is going smoothly, many mothers feel in tune with their babies, anticipating their hunger needs instinctively.

Most babies can tolerate hunger only in small doses before they cry out.

At the words and movement the hawk bated again, more fiercely than before, and Romilly gasped, struggling to keep her sense of self against the fury of thrashing wings, the hunger, the blood-lust, the frenzy to break free, fly free, dash itself to death against the dark enclosing beams .

Men and women and young children, gaunt with hunger and begrimed with dirt, some with faces that were hard and stony, some with faces that were weak and simple, some with eyes that were red as blood, all weary with waiting and wasted with long pain, ran hither and thither in the gloom of the foul place where they were immured together.

Here they went ashore to a wretched bivouac, to lie about the camp fires, with their belts drawn tight, chewing grass or aromatic leaves to allay their hunger.

Albany, with a wholesome hunger, so that they debated with spirit the question of breakfast and the best place of breakfasting in a city which neither of them knew, save in the most fugitive and sketchy way.

He felt a hunger for the acrid smell of metal polish that hung about his bugle as he played.

She needed desperately to assuage the fierce hunger that was burgeoning inside her, to satisfy her frantic craving for him.

None hungered or thirsted in Stamboul that night except the miserable Caphar captives.

Hyland took a piece of the rejected caraway cake without enthusiasm, hunger apparently contending with a sense of the indecorum of this refection in the presence of the dead.