How To Use Ravening In A Sentence
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ravening wolves
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The captain and his mate enjoyed their supper, while Carne in the distance bore the pangs of a malady called bulimus, that is to say, a giant's ravening for victuals, without a babe's power of receiving them.
Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
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For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
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She said that she was tired of being pursued by ravening journalists.
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Unbidden, desire for her rose within, like some ravening beast.
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We were also advised that this was the normal practice for small businesses and was not contravening any laws.
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When Snow White's beauty wins the heart of the prince that the Queen desperately pursues, the Queen banishes her to the forest, where a ravening man-eating beast hungrily awaits.
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Once we get to dinner time the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now.
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Electricity crawled along the silhouette of the ravening beast, and its viciously pointed beak glinted and was outlined in a shifting corona of spitting sparks.
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The fusiliers drive with a practised authority, zigzagging, never contravening each other's line of fire. The top-cover soldiers swivel with their rifles to their shoulders, eyes pressed to the sights.
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The humble person approaches ravening beasts, and when their gaze rests upon him, their wildness is tamed.
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Kipling, Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many lesser authors penned stories full of animal hides and bare feet, struggles for food and battles with ravening beasts.
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ravening creditors
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What's very annoying is that as soon as the meals are brought in the rest of the family become like a pack of ravening wolves and will promptly start begging for them.
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My infant heart would leap at the sound of the lunch bell, and every day I would fall on that school dinner like a ravening wolf.
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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In the chill dawn I awoke to a ravening hunger that was insistent to be noted, and though my eyes would scarce believe there was Donald Roy cocked tailor fashion on the heath arranging most temptingly on a rock scone sandwiches of braxy mutton and a flask of usquebaugh (Highland whiskey).
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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The code also allowed for partitioning of estates, thus contravening the tradition of impartible inheritance and, historians have argued, contributing to France's increasingly low birthrates as families sought to pass their land on intact.
1802, March 27
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They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
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In tandem, they learned that they did not own their rights or responsibilities; rights and responsibilities inhered in or were produced through relationships, contravening their autonomy.
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Hung on the walls were beautiful dagger hilts shaped as hawks and dragons, one a ravening wolf with a great diamond clasped in it jaws.
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Police may call it the fineable offence of contravening traffic rules, but it is the order of the day among minibus drivers.
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She called the media "ravening wolves".
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By trading in imperial measures (pounds and ounces), he was apparently contravening legislation that came into being on 1 January which made the kilogramme the standard unit measurement of weight for loose goods in Britain.
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That said, knowing how hard most good cheeses are to cut they're either hard or they squoosh, I can't imagine what a pain those big ol' stacks o' cheese were to cut under the pressure of 200 guests all ravening for a bit of fromage.
Who Cut the Cheese?
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The special agent had been below him, surrounded by a ravening pack of boar-hunting dogs, backed up by a dozen armed men.
Dance Of Death
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It's a school training day so I am off to Chessington World of Adventures with a ravening horde of birthday-maddened infants.
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The captain and his mate enjoyed their supper, while Carne in the distance bore the pangs of a malady called bulimus, that is to say, a giant’s ravening for victuals, without a babe’s power of receiving them.
Springhaven
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One is the very fierce passage in The Origin of Species where he talks about ‘the face of nature, bright with gladness’ and yet if you look beneath, you will see things ravening, devouring, consuming.
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Police may call it the fineable offence of contravening traffic rules, but it is the order of the day among minibus drivers.
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Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
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For years Martians were imagined as the stuff of nightmares - bug-eyed monsters, ravening warlords or advanced experimenters on humans.
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It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
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He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
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If anything, like a ravening creature, made savage through incarceration, the recollection had grown more vicious with the passage of time.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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While your legends may beg to differ, we are not mindless, ravening creatures.
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But this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will, cannot coexist with reflection: it disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.
Uncollected Prose
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A ravening wolf in sheep's clothing.
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Watching husbands and wives and children all screaming at each other and acting like a ravening pack of spoiled brats for an hour is pretty unedifying stuff.
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The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf, eating at my innards.
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People talk about that as contravening the right of presumption of innocence.
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He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
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‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
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He and the hounds ravening him are amalgamated in one precipitate upsweep of pigments.
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Anyone who takes milk from an unhealthy cow will be contravening public health regulations.
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But after a while that didn't stop you from ravening down the poison.
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She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking.
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The next day a police inspector interrupted his speech to inform him that he was contravening a by-law by speaking in the square.
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Some people can turn into ravening beasts under the light of a full moon but they aren't werewolves.
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Often, these people subsume their own needs into looking after others, so contravening perhaps the central tenet of modern life - self-advancement.
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At Trinity Hall, the thirteenth day of October, 1704, in presence of John Findlay, deacon, compeared John Watson, John Youngson, William Pirie, John Kempt, Patrick Gray, John Mair, and George Gray, and submitted themselves to the court of the Wright and Coupar Trade for their abuse therein in contravening and vilipending the deacon and other mis-demeanours.
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ~ Matthew 7: 15
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If he could get a fare nothing else mattered - he was like a ravening beast.
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People who think porn will turn you into a ravening sexual predator are in denial about the fact that 95% of men have watched pornography.
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Once we get to dinner time the peace and quiet is shattered by three ravening teenagers all demanding food and demanding it now.
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‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
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These men were looked upon as ‘ravening wolves, horseleeches and shearers,’ from whom no man was safe.
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Geez — could you at least sugar-coat your ravening hunger for "dirt"?
Excerpt from "Leanna Strikes Out on Her Own" [W-I-P]
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They were not asked to plead to charges of corruption, fraud, forgery and uttering, and contravening fishing laws.
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Her secret horrors, the massive psychic wound from the loss of her golden torc (and yet that not as devastating as one might have expected), the monstrous metapsychic faculties for coercion, psychokinesis, creativity, farsensing, now walled up and latent like ravening beasts in squeeze-traps, never to be freed again.
The Golden Torc
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Terror, deeper and more paralyzing than he'd ever known before, seized him like some ravening beast.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE