Sentence examples for voracious use from inspiring English sources

The majority of America is not starving, but we nevertheless exhibit a high discount rate in our voracious use of oil not much different than the starving Haitian.

Under Robert Moses, the "master-builder" who shaped the city from the 1930s to the 1960s, urban renewal became voracious, often using eminent domain to snatch private property and replace lively neighbourhoods with self-contained housing projects that became barren and dangerous.

Biography includes: Born Nov. 29, 1959, in Chicago... liberal arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, masters from Northwestern... married to Amy Rule, three children... a regular swimmer and a voracious reader, using his hours aboard airplanes to consume books... served briefly as a civilian volunteer on an Israeli military base during the Persian Gulf war of 1991.

Dragonfly larvae do have a fearsome reputation as voracious predators, using their highly modified mouth parts as a hydraulic grabber to lunge at prey.

We should begin by considering that in little more than sixty years, our beautiful cities have become monstrous consumers of energy, evermore voracious in using up fossil fuels and producing greater and greater amounts of waste and emissions.

Violent change and transmogrification became means by which Picasso could use his voracious visual memory and digestive powers to assimilate the work of other artists, and by reinventing their idioms and images, somehow triumph over them — to show, in his magical and warlike view of art, that he now possessed them, possessed the past, and was now steering history in a new, Modernist direction.

With the rising popularity of online music, much of it available free, technology-wise teenagers, the industry's most voracious buyers, can easily use CD-burning technology to make bootleg copies and sell them at school for as little as $1. Companies are showing signs of cracking.

His hunger for the ball was nothing less than voracious and some of the use he put it too was often breathtaking.

The problem for Sheila is the idea that her development might be watched and recorded for a purpose unrelated to her welfare: used by the voracious and amoral writer who exists in the same person as her mother.

Voracious was a word she used about herself, and she had a voracious appetite for talk, for information.

That is thanks to the country's voracious appetite for cruising cyberspace using mobile terminals, and many say the impact of that love affair will be huge.