Empty
Empty adjective - Feeling a desire or need for food.
Usage example: as the long car trip wore on, we all started to feel a little empty
Hungry
Both words in one sentence
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Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: About Donovan after Pierre uses the telepathy dynamo: I'm hungry...very hungry... but I crave nutrition, not empty calories.
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A magic user who hatches turns into a perpetually hungry and very tough monster, who eats their own empty shell.
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She is a toddler, yet she sucks an apple that's larger than herself empty within mere seconds, including the core, and she's still hungry.
Source: Big Eater / Western Animation
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