ravenous appetite
noun phrase
: a great desire for food
After hiking all day, I had a ravenous appetite.
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Silicon Valley’s employment boom unleashed a ravenous appetite for office space to accommodate the fast-growing tech workforce.
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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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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 Nov. 2024.
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