ravenousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ravenousness
Noun
  • In recent books, French has borrowed elements of the western genre to explore corporate rapacity in the era of climate change and looked at life in a small Irish village with the ear to both insider and outsider.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • The biblical voracity of these insects make them among the world’s most destructive pests.
    Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Obviously though, this voracity for Sonnys doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 8 July 2024
Noun
  • Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The teen, who suffered four days of stomach pain before being admitted to Tauranga Hospital, had ingested between 80 and 100 high-power magnets, each around 5×2 millimeters in size, according to a Friday report in the New Zealand Medical Journal.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Most of the frog’s body is smooth, while the sides, throat, chest and stomach have some small bumps, according to the study.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For many, missing a month of benefits could mean hunger.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Today, thousands cross seas and deserts daily, escaping war, hunger, and horror.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to food-security experts, extreme malnutrition in Gaza, already high, skyrocketed after GHF took over; according to Netanyahu, the foundation failed to prevent looting by Hamas.
    Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
  • On the floor of their tiny makeshift home in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, her mother Fatima Begum feeds Sofiya by rubbing her gums with a food paste designed to treat severe malnutrition.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the past few decades, this simple product has helped to bring millions of children back from the brink of starvation.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Zinna died of thirst and starvation, but the day would never be determined.
    Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Ravenousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ravenousness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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