Utilitzem cookies
Aquest lloc web utilitza cookies per a oferir-vos la informació més rellevant. Si vosté continua navegant, accepta aquestes cookies.
Aquest lloc web utilitza cookies per a oferir-vos la informació més rellevant. Si vosté continua navegant, accepta aquestes cookies.
Ho sabíeu?
Podeu fer doble clic en una paraula per a buscar-la a TermGallery.
Podeu fer doble clic en una paraula per a buscar-la a TermGallery.
Significats de ravening en anglès
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
Termes relacionats
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
Termes relacionats
Sinònims
Examples for "predatory"
Examples for "predatory"
1
Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
2
Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
3
An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
4
Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
5
These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
1
Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
2
Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever.
3
The vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.
4
It was like the vulturine face of Castor, but... No, it could not be Castor.
5
The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.
1
Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning.
2
Their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else.
3
Ye shall cease wholly to be barbarous vulturous Chactaws, and become noble European nineteenth-century men.
4
This sordid, vulturous, diabolical old man reminded Nately of his father because the two were nothing at all alike.
5
I saw a hand which was a claw, a strong, shriveled thing with long, dirty nails and a vulturous suggestion.
1
They even have raptorial claws for the purpose.
2
The tallest of the Praying-Mantis creatures waved a raptorial leg at Iris, its mandible clicking commands.
3
It had been posed as if in mid-strike, its raptorial arms outflung to shadow the paper landscape below.
4
As if playing along, the mantis did a sudden little dance, flexing her raptorial legs while that bright watchful face did everything but wink.
Ús de ravening en anglès
1
She couldn't protect herself against our ravening dad with a mere cut-eye!
2
Because she had formed an image of me as a ravening monster?
3
At one o'clock the four elder ones would be upon her, ravening.
4
The deep voice of the wind is that of a ravening beast.
5
And yet, why throw a rag like this to us ravening wolves?
6
They worry one, Frank, with ravening jaws, as dogs worry a rabbit.
7
But to Louis it seemed that he ate like a ravening beast.
8
When he goes to the chase, may a ravening beast attack him!
9
Come hither, boy, we'll hunt to-day The book-worm, ravening beast of prey!
10
He could hear the ravening snap of those jaws out in the darkness.
11
After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
12
Your wild and ravening commands were received; but cannot be obeyed.
13
He heard nothing but the ravening fire and the explosive popping of resin.
14
Outside the wind screamed like a ravening beast at the window.
15
There were ravening multitudes of demobilized variety artists besieging every stage-door in France.
16
The human family seems changed into a pack of ravening wolves.
Sobre aquest terme
Col·locacions frequents
Més col·locacions
Ravening a través del temps
Ravening per variant geogràfica
Regne Unit
Comú