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 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.
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?
(Often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous.
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 .
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