Sentence examples for aching hunger from inspiring English sources

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It's that every character onstage is so obviously driven by an aching hunger to be noticed.

Small wonder then that hunger is one of the dominant themes of The Inheritors – an aching hunger that slows you down and makes you less able to move but also to think.

But, once the excitement of lighting an ancient gas stove with a match had worn off, I discovered the aching hunger — unconquerable by even the largest plate of spaghetti and entire bottles of Communist reds — that is peculiar to eating too often alone.

Though they had never met face to face, Nonie Drummond, 14, and Spencer Lee King, 17, seemed to have plenty in common: a zeal for MTV, a weakness for junk food and, more than anything, an aching hunger to escape the loneliness and boredom that marked their teenage lives.

In societies suffering from drought, food scarcity and poverty, these programmes can be the difference between aching hunger and nutrition.

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A Slice of the Moon (Doubleday, £9.99 hardback) is a thumping great historical read, thick with complexity, aching with hunger; no punches are pulled in the grinding misery of the Atlantic crossing to outrun the unfair arm of the law.

Imagine the mother who toils all day in the field but still goes to bed with a stomach aching from hunger because she cannot afford enough food to feed her family.

The family had no access to food, and Nasir ached from hunger.

Instead, she would look me directly in the eye and tell me how she had ached with hunger, growing up in Eastern Europe during World War II, with three sisters and two brothers.

Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need.

When children's stomachs are aching from the pains of hunger, how can we ever think that they will perform well in school?

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