Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
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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 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 .
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.
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