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
He ate rapidly, gnawing, with a species of ravenousness, the largest bones; while his sinewy hand often rested on a dagger-hilt, set with precious stones.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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 Frances Hodgson Burnett
