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extremely hungry- His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
ravenous = extremely hungry
- 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.Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- Most truly do I sign myself Your increasingly and ravenously affectionate uncle SCREWTAPEC.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- I began to eat one ravenously.Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- He was still ravenously hungry, and feeling very well.Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
- And it was the same with Dora herself, and who knew but that she might have been the next to fall victim to his ravenous frenzies?Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- He is sucked out into the ravenous void.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- Left alone, the minister summoned a servant of the house, and requested food, which, being set before him, he ate with ravenous appetite.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Childless thou art, childless remain: so Death Shall be deceived his glut, and with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- Talons swiped like sickles; fangs gnashed ravenously in anticipation of meat.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- But for all its impressive discipline, the Twelfth Legion looked pitifully small, a splotch of demigod valor in a sea of ravenous monsters.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- I could not remember the last time I had tasted bacon and eggs, and I was ravenous.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- It ought to be quite interesting having them share such a small space, what with Otis's now surely ravenous appetite.Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
- He was ravenous, and he remembered that she hadn't cooked him dinner in months.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- He was not only ravenous; his feet hurt.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- It gave me hope to have a skilled dimachaerus and a ravenous peach baby at my side.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- But it grew swiftly, like something ravenous and all-seeing and demonic.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- He had been ravenous since coming off the plains—so whatever the blow was, it was serious.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Ravenous, they ate and drank, and for a while there was sound of chewing.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
ravenously = extremely hungry