A stretch of country in which work or food is hard to come by.
they'd tramped a long hungry track
Example sentencesExamples
- When you're old, when you're on a hungry track, without food or water, there's no hell worse.
- It's a hungry track. The settlers haven't got much.
- All the arts and wiles could not extract a feed on this hungry track.
- She described the desolate stretch as a very hungry track.
- Eight weeks on a hungry track. Got a week's work at last.