How to Use ravenous in a Sentence

ravenous

adjective
  • By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous.
  • That was part of what made the press so ravenous to have at her.
    — Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • Or in case a pack of ravenous possums had tried to drag it away in the night.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Here are some of the small-town romances that feed my ravenous heart, and maybe yours, too.
    — Ashley Poston, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • Joe Vinson ran across late last week must have been ravenous.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 25 July 2017
  • Yet, the teachers are not alone in this ravenous feeding at the trough.
    — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Farmers stand by as armies of ravenous insects eat their crops.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Northern pike are simply less wary and more ravenous than muskies.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • As the ice thins, the bears move ashore, ravenous, and begin to scavenge for food.
    — Palko Karasz, New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • For those of you who don't wake up ravenous, this breakfast fruit salad is a good recipe to try.
    — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Sheep—docile, ravenous and just the right height—easily smoked the field.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The storm has brought with it a school of bull sharks, who are smaller and faster than great whites, but just as ravenous.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Apr. 2026
  • What is mass destruction are these huge ravenous beasts.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Taylor Swift has one of the most ravenous fan-bases in all of pop music.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Some have gotten lucky, having never been hit by storms or swarms of ravenous sea stars.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
  • For years, the companies have grown rapidly and hired at ravenous speeds.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • No one’s allowed to eat carbs on-site, forcing the ravenous grounds crew to sneak bagels behind a shed.
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 22 May 2025
  • Their faces, as well as other Black people in the video, were made up to look like ravenous dogs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But what might be the more pressing issue is how the company plans to solve its ravenous cash flow needs—now.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Right now your cat is probably shredding your bedspread in a ravenous rage.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Hundreds of ravenous goats that munched brush that would have fueled the approaching fire.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Sawflies are ravenous insects that feed on a wide variety of landscape trees, shrubs, and conifers.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Amazon is one of the most ravenous warehouse buyers on Earth.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But fans of the brand — who tend to be teenagers and young women — have welcomed the stores with ravenous excitement.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As the Mediterranean’s summer heat waves grow fiercer, so too do its ravenous wildfires.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In the beginning was a ravenous pink elephant laying claim to its mother’s life and body.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The 8-year-old had mild autism and a ravenous appetite for new information, his mom said.
    — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
  • For me, this is the hardest part of the process, letting the bird rest without tearing into it like a ravenous dog.
    — David Holloway | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2022
  • When that happens the insects change colour and gather in ravenous swarms which can fly more than 100km in a day.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020

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