How to Use voracious in a Sentence

voracious

adjective

• He has a voracious appetite.
• The founder, a voracious reader named Richard Bartinsdale, was charmed by the book carts in Paris found on the banks of the Seine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• An analysis of the reach of such posts found the far-right to be the more voracious consumers.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• The wine is named for the voracious hares that feed on the sap of grapevines, causing damage to vineyards.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• While the flames were voracious up higher, the fire’s pathway down the hillside slowed to a trudge.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• The most voracious readers may go home with four books, Clary said.
  — Page Leggett, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2018
• Tiger sharks are known for voracious appetites and are some of the ocean’s most avid scavengers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• Yet there’s no doubt that the demand for AI in drones has been voracious and growing.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022
• One worker feeds a voracious oven from piles of cane fiber.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• Cetas loved to fish and was a voracious knitter, his children said.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• One of the crab’s voracious predators — cod — do not like the chill temperatures in the cool pool.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2021
• But the voracious demand for her time may exact a toll.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 14 July 2021
• And that’s to say nothing of Michael’s voracious appetite.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2019
• But the fate of these and other native fish are now confronting fresh threats: the smallmouth bass, a voracious predator.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Smallmouth bass, even more voracious, arrived in the 1990s.
  — Brittany Peterson and John Flesher, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• The Point: Are pollsters willing to walk away from that voracious appetite?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• Tolsky loved to knit and was a voracious reader, her sister said.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
• Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Before they are planted, the seedlings are coated in wax — to foil voracious beetles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Nashville Predators fans have become some of the most voracious and informed hockey fans in the U.S.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 18 June 2018
• Their voracious caterpillars have caused widespread damage to forests, parks and trees in streets and yards.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
• That includes assembling, for the first time, a complete map of the voracious insect’s genome.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020
• Janet, with a tidy bedroom upstairs, was a quiet girl and a voracious reader.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• The voracious Asian beetle feeds on ash trees, taking away water and nutrients and killing the trees.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• The Xiphactinus was not quite half as long but equally as voracious.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 16 June 2018
• But the beast, with its voracious appetite, still needed to be fed, and a single bland and tiny crumb was better than nothing at all.
  — Dave Sheinin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• The hornworm is a voracious eater of plants — mainly tomatoes and peppers.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
• Growing up, books were the first stories Bowser got lost in thanks to her mother who was a voracious reader.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• Plus, one of the most voracious algae-eaters, the long-spined black sea urchin, began dying in the Caribbean in the 1980s, likely from a waterborne pathogen.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
• Exciting news for Elsa, who has won my heart with her voracious appetite — Nino schmoozes with the editor, Enrico.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Jan 2025