ravenous
adjective
ravenousness
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a word derived from
ravenous.
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
The mate with difficulty restrained them in their ravenousness.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
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 Benjamin Lumley
