famished

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  • I excuse him; after these crises one is famished, and if it is because of an empty stomach that one has to fill up, he must be terribly famished. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • Gellan touched blades and the two men sprang back and began to circle one another. —  Waylander
  • "Nor do I believe that conclusion means that I am 'thinking like a human.' —  The Dig
  • "What you going to do with yours?" he said. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • But he was famished, and consumed it with relish. —  Winter Warriors
 

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