gorging on
Example Sentences
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It’s there that the baleen filter feeders spend the summer gorging on tiny crustaceans from the muddy bottom of the Bering, Chuckchi and Beaufort seas, creating shallow pits or potholes in the process.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
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
As Evergrande was gorging on land, it sought ways to help finance its deals.
From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023
So Lewis and astrostatistician Brendon Brewer instead investigated much larger, more luminous objects known as quasars—bright astrophysical beacons formed from supermassive black holes gorging on gas at the centers of distant galaxies.
From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023
“Well, let’s go. Trixie’s gorging on the cookies. I’m getting nauseous.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
