gorging

Example Sentences

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The private-equity industry, after gorging on technology investments in the wake of the pandemic, is now coming back around to bread-and-butter companies such as industrial suppliers and service providers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

The solution, in other words, lies somewhere between culling cows in Niger and gorging ourselves on factory-farmed flesh.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2023

“It seems to have been really gorging itself, eating very rapidly.”

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

They would probably get close enough, while Gollum was gorging and off his guard.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien