ravin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The thievery of his thoughts and the ravin of his envy would have provided interesting bases of speculation for the reflective magistrate, since, if, according to the metaphysician, thoughts are things, he committed crimes daily.
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder
It put with irate and verbose extravagance the fact that sometimes Nature, red in tooth and claw, With ravin shrieked against his creed; but it failed to see any but one side of the question.
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
The waters have risen, The springs are unbound— The floods break their prison, And ravin around.
From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
Such differences do exist, and conditions vary the world over, whence nature, which accumulates inequalities in the struggle for life, "with ravin shrieks against our creed."
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
The Laureate, seeking Love's last law, Finds "Nature red in tooth and claw With ravin"; fierce and ruthless.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 14, 1892 by Various
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
