Sentence examples for was often hungry from inspiring English sources

The upbringing as she tells it now is far bleaker; she was beaten, she was often hungry, she was left all night on the doorstep by a mother whose religious excesses might even have been a secondary influence on the household the first being her depression, which was pervasive and relentless.

I did not have much time to study the Koran and I was often hungry.

They are often hungry.

The children are often hungry and crying, Mr. Mohammad said.

There was no money and no food; they ate endless potatoes and were often hungry.

And while they all share the same goal, they are often hungry rivals.

We drink water or black tea.' Her children are often hungry because she cannot afford to buy food every day.

His parents divorced when he was three years old, and his alcoholic mother raised him in Manhattan, where they were often hungry and on the brink of eviction.

And as the Chicago teachers' strike reminds us, poor children are often hungry, depending on their schools rather than their homes for breakfast and lunch.

Petty meanness gets them down – they all said kitchens in their care homes are locked after tea, but residents are often hungry at night.

In this way, the prize is a symptom of a sharp-elbowed profession whose members, even as they cultivate the aura of ascetic aesthetes, are often hungry hustlers for whom the ultimate prizes are not medals, but clients.