Sentence examples for ravenous of from inspiring English sources

By John McPhee Young pickerel — "most ravenous of fishes," according to Thoreau — start eating each other when they are scarcely two inches long.

Thoreau understood — more than most, anyway — this "swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes... stately, ruminant... lurking under the shadow of a pad at noon... still, circumspect... motionless as a jewel set in water".

All but the most ravenous of diners will find the half-kilo order plenty, particularly as it is accompanied by delicious freshly baked bread, perfect for soaking up juices (£5.20).

"Black Friday", with its promises of in-store bargains – such as 40-inch LED TVs at £139 a pop at Asda or cheap tablets at Currys PC World – draws the more ravenous of bargain hunters to stores, even if many still question the logic of an annual UK sales event pegged to the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

For instance, someone thought of as excellent for benefiting friends and harming enemies can be cruel, arbitrary, rapacious, and ravenous of appetite.

It's that the Austin joints are becoming so storied that ravenous out-of-towners who formerly used the capital city as a point of departure are lingering there instead.

Stories of ravenous bands of canine-eating refugees quickly flooded the media.

Back in London by February 1671, Churchill's handsome features and manner – described by Lord Chesterfield as "irresistible to either man or woman" – had soon attracted the ravenous attentions of one of the King's most noteworthy mistresses, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.

But the image she conjured of a ravenous engine of consumption suggested something more than mere media concentration.

The narrator of "My Name Is Trouble" is a ravenous shell of woman, "petrified of emptiness" whose "chase is endless".

Twiggy was one of the first celebrities to become famous merely for being famous, and Tom's real subject was the void at the ravenous heart of the frenzy of renown.