Example sentences for: thirst

How can you use “thirst” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A Time investigation finds that nursing homes neglect patients: Seniors have died of thirst and starvation; some facilities are crawling with maggots.

  • The first Playboy I ever read, from 1970 I think, featured an interview with a very angry Cosby, who sided with the black revolutionaries with a thirst for payback.

  • Jeans mentions one modern authority, whose identity I should like to know, who makes the intriguing suggestion that horses aboard sailing ships often had to be lifted overboard into the sea to relieve their thirst, a theory that even Jeans regards as ludicrous.

  • According to evolutionary psychologists, this thirst exists because during evolution, it led to lots of offspring.

  • I had slaked my thirst for O.J. news by reading Harry Shearer.


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