Sentence examples for so avid that from inspiring English sources

It should be no surprise, then, that Foreman is also an avid reader of fiction, so avid that she was enlisted as a judge for this year's Man Booker Prize.

Once the battle was over, though, the so-called Devil's Picture Book once again trumped the Good Book, with players so avid that even "the breast of a wounded comrade" did for a table, wrote Thomas Wise Durham, a Zouave.

"The reason I'm so avid about that is that I want to make sure Ben's spirit will be in this company".

"There are fans out there so avid to read that they will read something that isn't even published yet," she told me.

He was so avid for life that he must have found it peculiarly hard to die.

McTeer is a marvel, so avid with malice that she makes the feathers on her hat spring upright.

Phagocytosis of nanoshells is so avid, in fact, that the monocytes/macrophages are rendered black in optical imaging (Fig. 1).

So avid was her filmgoing that her local cinema, in Walton Street, was rumoured to have given her a free pass for life.

Dr. Rusz, who travels around the state educating farmers about the menace posed by the wild pigs and encouraging them to set traps on their land, is so avid a hog-hater that in the early stages of Michigan's invasion, he went to bars to eavesdrop on hunters who might have spotted the porcine invaders.

These omissions say a great deal about the state of a country that has rarely seemed so avid in its navel-gazing, so inward-looking.

Legend has it they were so avid to perfect the collection that they had soldiers search every vessel entering the Mediterranean's busiest harbour for books.