Sentence examples for avid as from inspiring English sources

Ms. Manville keeps it all in Mary's pretty, wistful eyes, which have grown as bright and avid as a hungry bird's.

He's avid, as Tony Curtis used to say — avid for love, for money, for everything — and he doesn't care who notices it.

Athena comes on as a striding warrior goddess, armed and dangerous, avid as a wasp, in a tiny bronze statuette from the fifth century B.C.

Is there a part of the mind, especially for someone as ambitious, as avid, as Sontag, that refuses to believe in its own extinction?

Men's current quest for sonic and visual infinity may be almost as avid as it was after the Second World War.

He saw the shadows, the wolves, rush together, quick and avid, as the wagon with sled runners disappeared into the distance — forever, for neither he nor his father saw Aanakwad again.

However, it has to be remembered that activated white cells are also hungry for glucose and that dying necrobiotic cells and the autolytic process are glucose-avid, as are granuloma[ 2].

South Asians are avid consumers, as are viewers in countries as varied as Germany, Malaysia and South Korea.

This app isn't even for avid golfers as much as it's suited to beginners.

"EBay has changed my life," said Mr. Higginson, who is an avid buyer as well as seller.

Those who fill seats at each performance are tourists and avid playgoers, as well as firefighters and police officers, whose tickets are provided at a steep discount.