Example sentences for: thirst

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

  • Meticulous oral, nasal, and conjunctival hygiene help to allay concerns overt patient thirst [ 84 ] .

  • 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.

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • An essay says Washington's thirst for impeachment stems partly from a yen for parliamentary politics.

  • He doesn't seem to think the Chinese reliance on Western markets, say, or Hong Kong's thirst for Western capital, can help keep trans-Pacific relations smooth.


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