Sample Sentences for
ravenous
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    Harry, suddenly ravenous, helped himself to everything he could reach and began to eat.  (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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    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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    Buck was ravenous.  (source)
    ravenous = extremely hungry
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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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    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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    Ralph continued to watch the ship, ravenously.  (source)
    ravenously = with extreme 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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    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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    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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    At last, when the sun was low in the sky, a prisoner crew arrived with a great vat of some thick steamy substance that we gobbled ravenously.†  (source)
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    It gave me hope to have a skilled dimachaerus and a ravenous peach baby at my side.†  (source)
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    Natalie ate ravenously of the bread and rice, but her training as a physician informed her decision to avoid the meat.†  (source)
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