Example sentences for: thirst

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

  • Then, in 1835, after his return to France, Corot painted his Old Testament scene Hagar in the Wilderness --the first major painting in the Met show--which portrayed Ishmael and his mother dying of thirst in the desert.

  • 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.

  • Note its ingeniousness: To repress the powerful polygamous impulse in men, you employ their equally powerful thirst for social status.

  • 8. A True Education Creates a Lifelong Thirst for More Money

  • Fortunate are those who have been raised in a reading household or have acquired a thirst and opportunity for reading early in life.


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