Example Sentences

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Wonder why there's so much product placement for Subway sandwiches or characters who eat ravenously to excess?

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

Hancock began reading ravenously so that he could debate the missionaries.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Armed with our privilege and freedom, we too often ravenously seek out grievances, issues and causes to gin ourselves up into anger and furor.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

Compared with the colossal yellow Big Bird, the ravenously hungry Cookie Monster or the trash-can denizen Oscar the Grouch, Dr. Morrisett kept a low profile.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

The horses dropped their heads, spread their legs a little, and tore ravenously at the green shoots of grass.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes