ravenousness

Example Sentences

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You’ll be surprised how quickly you burn energy, and how suddenly ravenousness can take over your body.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2021

The ravenousness in so many of the faces in the crowd at Altamont was never exclusive to the counterculture.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2018

Apart from Fenfang's genuine love of food, this is what the ravenousness of the title is about.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the night we heard a commotion in the kitchen and much choking, coughing, and groaning, and at breakfast the boy was unable to swallow food with his usual ravenousness.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Seventeen noxious qualities of the wolf are adduced—his ravenousness, his cunning, his falseness, his cowardice, his thirst for robbery, amongst others.

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort