Meaning: The birds were hungry, so they flew high in the sky to find food.
Choice of Words: Hungry: Feeling a need to eat.
Alternative Expressions
The starving birds soared up high for nourishment.
Meaning: This sentence also describes birds that are very hungry and are flying high in the sky in search of food to eat. The words starving, soared, and nourishment are more specific and descriptive than the words hungry, flew, and food.
Choice of Words:Starving means extremely hungry. Soared means to fly high in the sky. Up means in a direction away from the ground. High means being at a great distance from the ground. For means with the purpose of getting something. Nourishment is food or other substances that provide nutrients to living things.
Ravenous birds ascended great heights in pursuit of sustenance.
Meaning: This sentence also describes birds that are very hungry and are flying high in the sky in search of food to eat. The words ravenous, ascended, great, heights, in, pursuit, and sustenance are even more specific and descriptive than the words in the previous two sentences.
Choice of Words:Ravenous means extremely hungry. Ascended means to move up or rise. Great means large or impressive. Heights means a high place or position. In means within or inside of something. Pursuit means the act of trying to catch or get something. Sustenance is food or other substances that provide nutrients to living things.