CRAVING in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for CRAVING, such as:
1. He had a craving to see the world.
2. And the men were so humble and craving.
3. What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
4. They are driven by a craving for personal glory.
5. There may be certain times of day when smokers crave their cigarette.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CRAVING
craving
 n.  an intense desire for some particular thing
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
5  In the winter bleakness a hunger for colour came over people, like the Laplander's craving for fats and sugar.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
6  So there came a time when nearly all the conscious life of Jurgis consisted of a struggle with the craving for liquor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  At the end of that time, however, his memory of his wrongs and his craving for revenge were quite as keen as on that memorable night when he had stood by John Ferrier's grave.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  Wert thou now in thy treasure-chamber at York, and were I craving a loan of thy shekels, it would be thine to dictate the time of payment, and the pledge of security.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  And the men were so humble and craving.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  He roused in the woman a wild sort of compassion and yearning, and a wild, craving physical desire.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  Since I've been in the army definitely, I've got out of the way of the world, and now I see how inordinately strong the craving for self-assertion and success is in men.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  And Connie had a woman's blind craving for happiness, to be assured of happiness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  He had a delight in cutting at the boys, which was like the satisfaction of a craving appetite.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
15  But now no physical craving or suffering received relief, and the effort to relieve them only caused fresh suffering.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
2  Symptoms of PMS include breast tenderness and a craving for sweet food.
3  She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.
4  They are driven by a craving for personal glory.
5  He had a craving to see the world.
6  If your chocolate craving is getting to you, try diet hot-chocolate packets.
7  Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
8  He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the happiness which they crave.
9  There may be certain times of day when smokers crave their cigarette.
10  What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.