How to Use voracious in a Sentence

voracious

adjective

• He has a voracious appetite.
• The founder, a voracious reader named Richard Bartinsdale, was charmed by the book carts in Paris found on the banks of the Seine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• An analysis of the reach of such posts found the far-right to be the more voracious consumers.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The wine is named for the voracious hares that feed on the sap of grapevines, causing damage to vineyards.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• While the flames were voracious up higher, the fire’s pathway down the hillside slowed to a trudge.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• Tiger sharks are known for voracious appetites and are some of the ocean’s most avid scavengers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• Yet there’s no doubt that the demand for AI in drones has been voracious and growing.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022
• One worker feeds a voracious oven from piles of cane fiber.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• Cetas loved to fish and was a voracious knitter, his children said.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• One of the crab’s voracious predators — cod — do not like the chill temperatures in the cool pool.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2021
• But the voracious demand for her time may exact a toll.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 14 July 2021
• And that’s to say nothing of Michael’s voracious appetite.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
• But the fate of these and other native fish are now confronting fresh threats: the smallmouth bass, a voracious predator.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Smallmouth bass, even more voracious, arrived in the 1990s.
  — Brittany Peterson and John Flesher, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• The Point: Are pollsters willing to walk away from that voracious appetite?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Tolsky loved to knit and was a voracious reader, her sister said.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
• Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Before they are planted, the seedlings are coated in wax — to foil voracious beetles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Their voracious caterpillars have caused widespread damage to forests, parks and trees in streets and yards.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
• That includes assembling, for the first time, a complete map of the voracious insect’s genome.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020
• Janet, with a tidy bedroom upstairs, was a quiet girl and a voracious reader.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The voracious Asian beetle feeds on ash trees, taking away water and nutrients and killing the trees.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• The hornworm is a voracious eater of plants — mainly tomatoes and peppers.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
• Growing up, books were the first stories Bowser got lost in thanks to her mother who was a voracious reader.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• Photos suggest that the trash bags were filled with swamp eels, which are native to Southeast Asia and have a voracious appetite.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
• But Daly was a voracious reader, a side effect of having polio as a boy and missing out on the Texas football craze.
  — Jon D. Erickson, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022
• For the voracious reader A book is a great gift, but an e-reader that carries 1,000 titles is an even better one.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023
• When will our voracious appetite peak for all that plentiful oil, gas and coal?
  — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020
• These carp are voracious eaters that can eat their weight in plants every day, using up food for native species and shelter from predators.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
• My dad only completed eighth grade but was a voracious reader.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024