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Meanings of voracious in English
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
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Examples for "ravenous"
Examples for "ravenous"
1
The flock came together ravenous and cannibal, and the party got clear.
2
And for the first time since I could remember, I was ravenous.
3
He caught the dangerous scent tonight; but he was ravenous to madness.
4
The ravenous manner in which they devour their food is almost incredible.
5
The eyes of the ravenous monsters below seemed to mock my devotion.
1
The girls were not in the least scared by the wolfish concert.
2
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always foxy.
3
Here were leashed the forty fierce and wolfish beasts of the pack.
4
There was something almost wolfish in the facial malignity that distorted him.
5
Only living.' He glanced across at her and smiled that wolfish grin.
1
He'd simply become more rapacious as the time for the cleansing neared.
2
What money is made is retained by private academies and rapacious administrators.
3
The contour of his hook-nosed face had something rapacious written on it.
4
He cannot be at once a rapacious creditor and a discharged bankrupt.
5
His heart fell when he saw the rapacious gleam in their eyes.
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?
1
The clamourings of esurient Viennese-
2
Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display.
3
Oscar-theamiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar-with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .
Usage of voracious in English
1
Only the constant shrieking and the cold, voracious energy confirmed its presence.
2
The wind strengthened the fire and the flames roared like voracious beasts.
3
I'm a voracious reader, I get through a book every few days.
4
It seems the Irish have developed a voracious interest in overseas property.
5
Although Obama was popular, he was not voracious in his social networking.
6
This was evidently a balance-fish-themost voracious of all the SQUALIDAE species.
7
Like all its brethren, however, it is a swift and voracious carnivore.
8
They're presented neither as voracious predators nor as plucky battlers against oppression.
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The heavy words shuffled along, giving the voracious eyes time to devour.
10
The fattest go to feed the voracious stomachs of the queen's suitors.
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It was no wonder that the pirate ships of Armada were voracious.
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By this time the dogs had already begun to be very voracious.
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It would be hard to conclude that she is a voracious reader.
14
Self-taught and brilliant, he had been described as having a voracious mind.
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Being voracious creatures, they will not want to share with their underlings.
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March had begun his breakfast with-the voracious appetite of an early-rising invalid.
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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