ravenousness

Example Sentences

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You’ll be surprised how quickly you burn energy, and how suddenly ravenousness can take over your body.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2021

The ravenousness in so many of the faces in the crowd at Altamont was never exclusive to the counterculture.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2018

Apart from Fenfang's genuine love of food, this is what the ravenousness of the title is about.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the tender herbs were then brought, but he would not touch them, and evinced other symptoms of antipathy, while he showed his ravenousness by trying to seize the keeper.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin

She sometimes hung with him and his companions on the railing outside dazzling restaurants where scores of gay people ate rich food in the sight of their boyish ravenousness.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson