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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hungrily
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eat hungrily (=eat a lot quickly, because you are very hungry)
▪ The children ate hungrily, devouring everything on their plate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Developers have been eyeing the land hungrily.
▪ The two little girls ate hungrily.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His mouth moved hungrily, devouring hers, his tongue darting, flickering, suggesting the deeper intimacy to come.
▪ Kissing her urgently, passionately, hungrily.
▪ The eagle overhead was hungrily seeking a rock on which to drop its prey.
▪ Those who could not afford to travel, hungrily devoured the pictures in magazines.
▪ While they ate hungrily, Ellen finished her drink, feeling light, warm and happy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hungrily

Hungrily \Hun"gri*ly\, adv. [From Hunger.] In a hungry manner; voraciously.
--Dryden.

Wiktionary
hungrily

adv. in a hungry manner

WordNet
hungrily

adv. in the manner of someone who is very hungry; "he pounced on the food hungrily" [syn: ravenously]

Usage examples of "hungrily".

I gaze at the familiar iconography: my brother forthrightly addressing the camera, almost hungrily sentimental and bonhomous, his arm around me to proclaim the occasion.

The eaglet gaped hungrily as he lifted it up, and made a sort of screeching noise, struggling apparently to reach something behind Frank.

The beans and salt fish that Giulio had wolfed so hungrily an hour earlier now fought each other for a return journey up his throat.

He tried to look like a real professor, bustling along in strict devotion to paragraphing and suffixes, but he could not help peering hungrily at the yellow wooden Ionic of Lambda House.

Beatrice Leep had given Roy a peanut-butter cookie, which he gobbled hungrily.

The boy swallowed the last of his chocolate and looked hungrily at Ruffy, who filled his mouth again.

They scurried to obey, but the fire was spreading swiftly, eating into the stern and dancing along the gunwale, reaching up hungrily towards the furled sails on their outstretched yards.

Hungrily, Stef found himself a place at a small table in one of them and ordered shchi without knowing what cabbage was.

She could be thy warrior-scourge of Hell, smiting all who stand against tbee, loving thee as fiercely and hungrily as she now slays.

The difficulty of getting here prevented people from coming on a velleity, and the eternal presence of these people- like starlings peering down hungrily at a picnic- reminded everyone who was lucky enough to have a job that others were waiting to take their place.

The flock of dark scavengers abandoned the site and soared high on the rising currents of air while they hungrily watched the land.

My main motivator was personal pleasure-and ironically, the more I hungrily sought after it, the more elusive and selfdestructive it became.

The colors which had come into it did not this time fade, but swirled to the outmost edge of the stone hungrily, as if that light wanted forth into full freedom.

Keller stood beside the command riser, Lumellen hovered near Shucorion, hungrily eyeing the helm as Quinones struggled to get something to use.

Sensation speared from the hard points to her clit as she sucked ravenously at his cock, her hands stroking the hard shaft as she moaned hungrily.