ravening
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Britain’s ravening tabloids have been a bit more circumspect than usual about Harry’s return.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2021
The cat was big, but the desert dogs were bigger, and the cat would have had no chance against a ravening pack.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2019
In the post-apocalypse, you will … walk in Elvis’ blue suede shoes … ride in The King’s pink ’55 Cadillac … fend off swarms of the ravening undead.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2019
The Eumenides, “the Kindly Ones,” are also the ravening Furies.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019
Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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