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

The young sharks were gorging themselves on the hated stingrays.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2024

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

The authorities would be telling them that we were not participating in the strike, that we were gorging ourselves on gourmet meals.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela