ravenousin a sentence
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After a long day of hiking, she was ravenous and couldn’t wait to eat dinner.ravenous = extremely hungry
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The ravenous lion prowled the savannah, searching for its next meal.
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Harry, suddenly ravenous, helped himself to everything he could reach and began to eat. (source)
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She was suddenly ravenous, but more than that, she was curious. (source)
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His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything. (source)ravenous = extremely hungry (metaphorically, to touch books)
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Ralph continued to watch the ship, ravenously. (source)ravenously = with extreme hunger
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When they are together, he is ravenous; it has been a long time since he's made love. (source)ravenous = extremely hungry (metaphorically, for lovemaking)
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But Charlie Bucket never got what he wanted because the family couldn't afford it, and as the cold weather went on and on, he became ravenously and desperately hungry. (source)ravenously = in an extremely hungry manner
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Buck was ravenous. (source)ravenous = extremely hungry
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He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously — eventually he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand. (source)ravenously = with great hunger
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Left alone, the minister summoned a servant of the house, and requested food, which, being set before him, he ate with ravenous appetite. (source)ravenous = extreme hunger
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All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her.† (source)
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Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it. (source)Ravenous = extremely hungry
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He's very tired, ravenously hungry, and a little stiff from sitting so long, but he leaps up when he hears it—"FORTY-NINE!† (source)
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The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him. (source)ravenous = extreme (hunger)
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The three of them, husband, wife, and visitor, ravenously consume the meat loaf, potatoes, and vegetables, and in the course of that experience our narrator finds his antipathy toward the blind man beginning to break down.† (source)
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