How to Use ravenous in a Sentence

ravenous

adjective
  • By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous.
  • Or in case a pack of ravenous possums had tried to drag it away in the night.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • As the ice thins, the bears move ashore, ravenous, and begin to scavenge for food.
    Palko Karasz, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • Yet, the teachers are not alone in this ravenous feeding at the trough.
    Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
    Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Taylor Swift has one of the most ravenous fan-bases in all of pop music.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The diner sitting next to me at Bistro Paul Bert in Paris must have been ravenous.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 29 Mar. 2022
  • When The Hunger Games arrived on the big screen in 2012, it was greeted by a ravenous fan base ready to be immersed in the world of Panem.
    Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Their faces, as well as other Black people in the video, were made up to look like ravenous dogs.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • For those of you who don't wake up ravenous, this breakfast fruit salad is a good recipe to try.
    Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2020
  • But fans of the brand — who tend to be teenagers and young women — have welcomed the stores with ravenous excitement.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Picture that moment as The Show and the rest of the Aztecs’ ravenous fan base lost its ever-loving marbles and the Mesa shook.
    Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • When that happens the insects change colour and gather in ravenous swarms which can fly more than 100km in a day.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Ravenous lions and tigers fought to the death, according to the Herald.
    Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • For me, this is the hardest part of the process, letting the bird rest without tearing into it like a ravenous dog.
    David Holloway | Dholloway@al.com, al, 21 Nov. 2022
  • For the ravenous, Von Trier makes a top-notch pork shank ($29), served with red cabbage and browned spätzle.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
  • Joe Vinson ran across late last week must have been ravenous.
    Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 25 July 2017
  • The late-show jokes, the ravenous media horde — she’s either a punchline or a headline.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But what might be the more pressing issue is how the company plans to solve its ravenous cash flow needs—now.
    Erik Sherman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Every winter they are still being thrown hard frozen to the ravenous dogs of the Yukon and Kuskokwim valleys ...
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
  • For years, the companies have grown rapidly and hired at ravenous speeds.
    Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • A year ago, there was one place in Boston equally beloved by the likes of James Beard-winning chefs and the ravenous, rowdy masses spilling out of the Royale.
    Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The skull of Triceratops was a set of lances and a shield to defend against ravenous Tyrannosaurus, and the plates and spikes of Stegosaurus evolved to make Allosaurus think twice about taking a bite.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
  • As larvae, the bees are ravenous, and their adult sisters, the nurse bees, visit them and provide food more than a thousand times a day.
    Paige Embry, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The 8-year-old had mild autism and a ravenous appetite for new information, his mom said.
    Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Amazon is one of the most ravenous warehouse buyers on Earth.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Farmers stand by as armies of ravenous insects eat their crops.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Her ravenous fanbase has already earned her the title of Gen Z’s Madonna.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 11 July 2024
  • Jim must find other survivors while avoiding the ravenous hordes — or even just one zippy zombie.
    Rendy Jones, EW.com, 16 July 2024

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