How to Use voracious in a Sentence

voracious

adjective

• He has a voracious appetite.
• Even for a voracious diner like me, there’s a lot to keep track of.
  — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
• The most voracious readers may go home with four books, Clary said.
  — Page Leggett, charlotteobserver, 31 May 2018
• Cetas loved to fish and was a voracious knitter, his children said.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• Tiger sharks are known for voracious appetites and are some of the ocean’s most avid scavengers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• An analysis of the reach of such posts found the far-right to be the more voracious consumers.
  — Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• When will our voracious appetite peak for all that plentiful oil, gas and coal?
  — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020
• Tolsky loved to knit and was a voracious reader, her sister said.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2022
• The voracious pachyderm finally backed out of the store, a bag of snacks still clasped in his trunk.
  — Chelsea Chan, NBC news, 5 June 2025
• The wine is named for the voracious hares that feed on the sap of grapevines, causing damage to vineyards.
  — Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• While the flames were voracious up higher, the fire’s pathway down the hillside slowed to a trudge.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• The venomous caterpillars of this species of moth thrive in voracious groups.
  — Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
• Eric was a year older than me, a good athlete and a voracious reader.
  — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
• Blazer was a large man with voracious appetites, not all of them in accordance with the law.
  — Seattle Times Staff & News Services, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
• Then there are other times in which the voracious appetites can overtake the story.
  — Jim Halterman, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
• Janet, with a tidy bedroom upstairs, was a quiet girl and a voracious reader.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• One of the crab’s voracious predators — cod — do not like the chill temperatures in the cool pool.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Sep. 2021
• Yet there’s no doubt that the demand for AI in drones has been voracious and growing.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Xiphactinus was not quite half as long but equally as voracious.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 16 June 2018
• Everything that couldn’t be crammed into their two small cars was consumed by the voracious flames.
  — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
• Before they are planted, the seedlings are coated in wax — to foil voracious beetles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Their voracious caterpillars have caused widespread damage to forests, parks and trees in streets and yards.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
• The bad news for the Dodgers is Dave Roberts’ voracious appetite for his own bullpen.
  — Bob Klapisch, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• The hornworm is a voracious eater of plants — mainly tomatoes and peppers.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 15 July 2019
• Row crops, sensitive wetlands and the floor of many forests have been chewed up by hogs as the voracious porkers look for their next meals.
  — Sammy Fretwell, charlotteobserver, 23 Dec. 2017
• The perch is a little too small for bigger birds like mourning doves, and my voracious flock of starlings is often cut off.
  — Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
• Mirren, however, is a voracious reader and read the book long before she was cast.
  — EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Lea, a voracious reader, has studied a wide range of coaching styles and leadership ideas.
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
• That includes assembling, for the first time, a complete map of the voracious insect’s genome.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 24 Aug. 2020