Sample Sentences for
voracious
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    Generally speaking, she was voracious in bed.†  (source)
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    His voracious eyes fixed on Alex as if she were a luscious plate of cheeseburgers.†  (source)
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    But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.†  (source)
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    Voracious for glory, greedy for danger, I roamed the horizons of al-Kulab, Watching time level mountains In its search and its hunger for me.†  (source)
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    Louie ate voraciously, got stronger, and expanded exponentially, his face and body bloating from water retention.†  (source)
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    The Silver mob pours in, searching through the stalls with the voracity of wolves.†  (source)
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    Years later, reviewing the chronicle of those days, Dr. Juvenal Urbino confirmed that his father's methodology had been more charitable than scientific and, in many ways, contrary to reason, so that in large measure it had fostered the voraciousness of the plague.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It was a Buick station wagon, forest green with real wooden panels on the sides and on the tailgate, and a chrome grille that looked like the gaping mouth of a voracious fish; from where Dan was sitting, the Buick appeared ready to eat him—and Dan looked tired enough to be eaten without much of a struggle.†  (source)
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    On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation.†  (source)
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    In Tjaden this is voracity, in Müller it is foresight.†  (source)
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    I was not concerned to impress the new freshmen who, like their London sisters, were here being launched in Society; there were strange faces now at every party and I, who a few months back had been voracious of new acquaintances, now felt surfeited; even our small circle of intimates, so lively in the summer sunshine, seemed dimmed and muted now in the pervading fog, the river-borne twilight that softened and obscured all that year for me.†  (source)
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    She stalked across the littered yard and climbed into the buggy, noticing with grim satisfaction that the men were tearing at the ham and cramming bits into their mouths voraciously.†  (source)
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    With single-minded voracity they waded into their breakfast while Angeline watched them tolerantly, making no attempt to correct their appalling manners.†  (source)
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