ravening
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Britain’s ravening tabloids have been a bit more circumspect than usual about Harry’s return.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2021
In the post-apocalypse, you will … walk in Elvis’ blue suede shoes … ride in The King’s pink ’55 Cadillac … fend off swarms of the ravening undead.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2019
The Eumenides, “the Kindly Ones,” are also the ravening Furies.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019
That’s when the loss undoubtedly occurred: in the course of scrambling together our stuff—coats, kids’ books, credit-card receipt, earbuds, scarves, bags, phones, an umbrella—and then hurrying through the rainy and ravening night.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
Even the weathers had grown milder, and the wolves that had once come ravening out of the North in bitter white winters were now only a grandfather’s tale.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
