ravenous appetite
noun phrase
: a great desire for food
After hiking all day, I had a ravenous appetite.
Examples of ravenous appetite in a Sentence
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The changing face of major college athletics is a snarling one with sharp teeth and a ravenous appetite.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
The volume-dependent strategy has also worked because of our ravenous appetite for pizza.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 28 Feb. 2025
The real explanation for the skyrocketing valuations, however, is less about the economics of any specific team and more about investors’ ravenous appetite to get into sports ownership.
—Brett Knight, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
There is a ravenous appetite for its flagship GPU chips from a wide variety of companies scrambling to keep pace in the AI era.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
For all its talk of war photography, Lawless’ film is much more interested in Moth’s ravenous appetite for life than the specifics of her professional achievements.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2024
Silicon Valley’s employment boom unleashed a ravenous appetite for office space to accommodate the fast-growing tech workforce.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
My basic argument was that the market, for whatever its indecipherable reasons might be, had a ravenous appetite for dot-coms and no interest whatsoever in a fine widget company.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
Even with the deluge, his streaming numbers reflect a ravenous appetite amongst rap listeners; he’s become too big to fail.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
The volume-dependent strategy has also worked because of our ravenous appetite for pizza.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 28 Feb. 2025
The real explanation for the skyrocketing valuations, however, is less about the economics of any specific team and more about investors’ ravenous appetite to get into sports ownership.
—Brett Knight, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
There is a ravenous appetite for its flagship GPU chips from a wide variety of companies scrambling to keep pace in the AI era.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
For all its talk of war photography, Lawless’ film is much more interested in Moth’s ravenous appetite for life than the specifics of her professional achievements.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2024
Silicon Valley’s employment boom unleashed a ravenous appetite for office space to accommodate the fast-growing tech workforce.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
My basic argument was that the market, for whatever its indecipherable reasons might be, had a ravenous appetite for dot-coms and no interest whatsoever in a fine widget company.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
Even with the deluge, his streaming numbers reflect a ravenous appetite amongst rap listeners; he’s become too big to fail.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
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“Ravenous appetite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ravenous%20appetite. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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