CRAVE in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for CRAVE, such as:

1. He had a craving to see the world.
2. What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
3. They are driven by a craving for personal glory.
4. There may be certain times of day when smokers crave their cigarette.
5. Symptoms of PMS include breast tenderness and a craving for sweet food.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crave
 v.  ask with earnestness or importunity; ask with submission or humility; beg
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  I crave pardon, brave Outlaw," said the Knight, "your reproof is just.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  Then, to speak more plainly," continued the physician, "and I crave pardon, sir, should it seem to require pardon, for this needful plainness of my speech.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
5  Forty days and forty nights did the imps crave our blood around this pile of logs, which I designed and partly reared, being, as you'll remember, no Indian myself, but a man without a cross.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  Borne by that flood over many desolate seas, we crave a scant dwelling for our country's gods, an unmolested landing-place, and the air and water that are free to all.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  He knows that if they trust him, he can give them the happiness which they crave.
2  There may be certain times of day when smokers crave their cigarette.
3  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
4  Symptoms of PMS include breast tenderness and a craving for sweet food.
5  She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.
6  They are driven by a craving for personal glory.
7  He had a craving to see the world.
8  If your chocolate craving is getting to you, try diet hot-chocolate packets.
9  Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
10  What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.