[ US /ˈɹeɪvən/ ]
VERB
  1. obtain or seize by violence
  2. prey on or hunt for
    These mammals predate certain eggs
  3. eat greedily
    he devoured three sandwiches
  4. feed greedily
    The lions ravened the bodies
NOUN
  1. large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

How To Use raven In A Sentence

  • When I looked at the chart a second time, I saw that there was a lot Michael had left out of his personal history; specifically, IVDU—intravenous drug use—dating back ten years, and a major depression that had led to a psychiatric hospitalization and ECT, electroconvulsive therapy. After the Diagnosis
  • She was treated with intravenous folinic acid and antibiotics and was given transfusions of blood products.
  • For example, Heinrich's work with ravens shows that the carnivorous birds will store bits of meat only for the short term.
  • She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
  • Yield the title of the website, for example the thread that IT myna makes whole story, become a story to move toward the core element of ideal outcome, make graven one part.
  • Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly. Rodney stone
  • The twitters of agreement amongst her friends drowned out Raven's plea of, ‘He's not mine…‘
  • It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
  • Or Wulfgar, who was clever as a cageful of monkeys and who was as much a pleasure in company as Raven-or as skilled in his own way as Cedric. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
  • For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
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