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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There is a ravenous appetite for its flagship GPU chips from a wide variety of companies scrambling to keep pace in the AI era.
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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
In a city starved for the big moment on the big stage, the Padres tried to sate the ravenous appetite with a single postseason run to the NL Championship Series last fall.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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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
In a city starved for the big moment on the big stage, the Padres tried to sate the ravenous appetite with a single postseason run to the NL Championship Series last fall.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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“Ravenous appetite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ravenous%20appetite. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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