How to Use ravenous in a Sentence

ravenous

adjective

• By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous.
• Yet, the teachers are not alone in this ravenous feeding at the trough.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
• Jim must find other survivors while avoiding the ravenous hordes — or even just one zippy zombie.
  — Rendy Jones, EW.com, 16 July 2024
• Much longer, the devil’s ravenous eyes suggest. Starving even while feasting, poor thing.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Rabb was also one of the Pac 12’s most ravenous rebounders.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 24 May 2017
• Researchers have long wondered how the human body adapted to sustain such a uniquely ravenous organ.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2015
• Food and fashion serve our collective ravenous purchasing appetites in this time of quick-moving trends.
  — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 5 Aug. 2024
• But counting on Trump for the truth is equivalent to relying on a ravenous lion to guide you out of the jungle.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 9 May 2017
• The ghost is Jordan's reputation as a man with a ravenous hunger for victory.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 22 May 2017
• But the blowback from the right, combined with higher interest rates and less ravenous consumer spending, has been enough to push major brands back to the sidelines.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 19 July 2024
• The parasites steal food from the shrimp, causing the ravenous hosts to eat twice as many of their own kind as usual, says Dunn, who co-authored a study on the bizarre phenomenon.
  — National Geographic, 5 Mar. 2016
• China’s ravenous, inventive internet users have an answer to unwelcome shellfish.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• In Russia, a medicinal leech costs less than $1, and a typical application requires three to seven of the ravenous little creatures.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• That was Outkast’s White Album, a schizophrenic dose of G-funk and future soul that won ravenous converts among the most lily-white of listeners.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2009
• 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
• Taylor Swift has one of the most ravenous fan-bases in all of pop music.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Ravenous lions and tigers fought to the death, according to the Herald.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• 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
• Joe Vinson ran across late last week must have been ravenous.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 25 July 2017
• The late-show jokes, the ravenous media horde — she’s either a punchline or a headline.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024