voracity

Example Sentences

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Place your fresh pakoras onto a paper towel-lined platter and watch as you, or anyone near you, scarfs them down with the same voracity with which one would demolish a carton of McDonald's french fries.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2023

A magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2020

I am not a writer of John Lennon’s notoriety, and I am not possessed of his voracity for sensationalism.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2020

In another piece of dating advice, Alexa spikes the idea of coffee dates with the voracity of an all-star volleyball player.

From The Verge • Jan. 7, 2018

The prestige of his outlandish voracity, of his immense capacity as a spendthrift, of his unprecedented hospitality went beyond the borders of the swamp and attracted the best-qualified gluttons from all along the coast.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez