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

Rapā′ciousness, Rapac′ity, the quality of being rapacious: ravenousness: extortion.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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)