How to Use voracious in a Sentence
voracious
adjective- He has a voracious appetite.
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Photos suggest that the trash bags were filled with swamp eels, which are native to Southeast Asia and have a voracious appetite.
— Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020 -
But Daly was a voracious reader, a side effect of having polio as a boy and missing out on the Texas football craze.
— Jon D. Erickson, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022 -
For the voracious reader A book is a great gift, but an e-reader that carries 1,000 titles is an even better one.
— Nick Guy, wsj.com, 1 Nov. 2023 -
When will our voracious appetite peak for all that plentiful oil, gas and coal?
— David Holahan, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020 -
Global investment banks have cashed in on the Adani Group’s voracious appetite for debt.
— John Hyatt, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 -
These carp are voracious eaters that can eat their weight in plants every day, using up food for native species and shelter from predators.
— Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024 -
Pitch: In a house plagued by voracious termites, Petar and Hana confront the shattering reality of an unplanned pregnancy.
— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
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