gorging on

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

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

More than one of the residents had dreamed of gorging on a magnificent banquet, only to wake up devastated.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead