How to Use ravenous in a Sentence

ravenous

adjective

• By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous.
• Or in case a pack of ravenous possums had tried to drag it away in the night.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• As the ice thins, the bears move ashore, ravenous, and begin to scavenge for food.
  — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 19 June 2019
• Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• The diner sitting next to me at Bistro Paul Bert in Paris must have been ravenous.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2022
• When The Hunger Games arrived on the big screen in 2012, it was greeted by a ravenous fan base ready to be immersed in the world of Panem.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2023
• Their faces, as well as other Black people in the video, were made up to look like ravenous dogs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
• For those of you who don't wake up ravenous, this breakfast fruit salad is a good recipe to try.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2020
• But fans of the brand — who tend to be teenagers and young women — have welcomed the stores with ravenous excitement.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
• Picture that moment as The Show and the rest of the Aztecs’ ravenous fan base lost its ever-loving marbles and the Mesa shook.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
• When that happens the insects change colour and gather in ravenous swarms which can fly more than 100km in a day.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• For me, this is the hardest part of the process, letting the bird rest without tearing into it like a ravenous dog.
  — David Holloway | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• For the ravenous, Von Trier makes a top-notch pork shank ($29), served with red cabbage and browned spätzle.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• The late-show jokes, the ravenous media horde — she’s either a punchline or a headline.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2021
• But what might be the more pressing issue is how the company plans to solve its ravenous cash flow needs—now.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
• Every winter they are still being thrown hard frozen to the ravenous dogs of the Yukon and Kuskokwim valleys ...
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
• For years, the companies have grown rapidly and hired at ravenous speeds.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• A year ago, there was one place in Boston equally beloved by the likes of James Beard-winning chefs and the ravenous, rowdy masses spilling out of the Royale.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• The skull of Triceratops was a set of lances and a shield to defend against ravenous Tyrannosaurus, and the plates and spikes of Stegosaurus evolved to make Allosaurus think twice about taking a bite.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• As larvae, the bees are ravenous, and their adult sisters, the nurse bees, visit them and provide food more than a thousand times a day.
  — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
• The 8-year-old had mild autism and a ravenous appetite for new information, his mom said.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• Amazon is one of the most ravenous warehouse buyers on Earth.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
• Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Farmers stand by as armies of ravenous insects eat their crops.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• The ravenous larvae eventually chew a ring around the trunk, cutting off the flow of nutrients and killing the tree.
  — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
• Northern pike are simply less wary and more ravenous than muskies.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• As the Mediterranean’s summer heat waves grow fiercer, so too do its ravenous wildfires.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• The ravenous lice attacked their roots, choking off the flow of nutrients to the rest of the plant — and causing the biggest crisis in the history of French wine.
  — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
• The clip hits the usual music-biopic beats: establishing that Winehouse just wants to be an artist, setting up her rise from small rooms to ravenous crowds, showing her struggles with fame via her being chased by paparazzi.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
• His academic genius for the subject appears to be fuelled by his ravenous need for solutions in his personal life.
  — Gloria Alamrew, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024