How To Use Raving In A Sentence

I'm not going to turn into a raving fundamentalist.
He's a committed vegetarian who occasionally gives in to cravings for lamb.
I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
Raving, starving herself, addicted to Seconal and Dexedrine, Tippy makes a dramatic transformation from beautiful to mean.
She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.

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Since draughtsmanship was the foundation of all his art, engravings, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, and drawings poured from him in astonishing quantity and quality.
The engraving shows that Geometry / Melancholy has not succeeded in fashioning a regular dodecahedron.
Everything was explained in it -- everything made clear; and gradually she realised the natural, strong and pardonable craving of the rich, unloved man, to seek out for himself some means whereby he might leave all his world's gainings to one whose kindness to him had not been measured by any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely for simple love's sake. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
Making ourselves miserable by these cravings and wishes is the unwholesome pattern of envy.
If you have a particular need - such as untamable carb cravings or severe lethargy - your priorities may be different.
Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica, a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt.
Tasteful engraving highlighted these silver mounts and inlays, as well as the case-hardened lock.
I was so desperate for the object of my craving that I almost blurted out, ‘Are you going to buy that?’
The Saravana bhavan came in to the rescue when a dosa craving hit, in NYC. Dorm life and food cravings
While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
He's gone stark raving mad.
If you are wondering whether Scalia's ravings stem from some internally consistent theory, Ed Brayton will set you straight.
Damn it I must seem like I'm raving like a lunatic about the red menace.
Well, once again I'm not going to call them raving maniacs.
Her mother is a drug addict and has been in and out of jail for over a decade, and Megan's insatiable craving for affection is both tragic and repellent.
The ancient traveler leaving China along this road would pass through Dunhuang before braving the many hazards of the journey westwards through East Turkestan (present-day Xinjiang).
Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
This set of engravings and autotypes was assembled from various sources during the early part of the 20th century.
Three square meals, with healthy snacks such as fresh fruit and nuts in between will help to dispel Fay's sweet cravings.
A popular engraving showed the desired way forward. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin, such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of.
It has been the subject of lore and the object of cravings for centuries.
Politicians have high burn out rate and they're looking to alleviate the pressure and stress - what I call the biochemical craving for connection. Ask Dan and Jennifer
Their stories are narrated with sharp adroitness and lessons are drawn that apply to our modern-day craving for supermen and saviours.
A surge of need, pain and pleasure welded together, craving, and the sweet excruciation of denial, giving way, finally, inevitably, to satisfaction. Crashed
The shop specialises in maps, engravings, and prints from 1570 onwards.
Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing.
Interestingly, blockade of this receptor not only seems to affect appetite, but also seems to help with cravings for nicotine.
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His craving for publicity has become almost a perversion.
She nervously giggled but gave him a strained look craving an answer to her question.
What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power?
Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
So you ate a candy bar after lunch or gave in to a craving and ate a banana split.
Such acts, he said, only served envy and the ambition of enraged parties or satisfied the cravings of lust.
You can read what can only be described as the completely nonsensical ravings of this chap here.
Then he proceeded to turn it over, leaf by leaf, and took exact notice of all in it: and it being _full of pictures of sundry mens cuts_, he could tell the palsgrave, who seemed also to be knowing in that kind, that this and this, and that and that, were of such a man's graving and invention. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
“It was a dark and stormy night” might become “It was a caliginous and raving night” or “It was an obscure and disorderly night” – not exactly conveying what the original does. Big Brother and Stupid Monkeys « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
This is a cellphone message left by the guy where he starts ranting and raving.
Riggs had executed scrollwork on more than 75 percent of the big Smith and then had it satin nickeled to better show off the engraving.
If they're not out raving all night hopped up on that ecstasy stuff, they're out behind the school listening to rap music, smoking reefer and even, sometimes, Mary Jane.
It was not that his spirits were visibly high -- he would never, in the concert of pleasure, touch the big drum by so much as a knuckle: he had a mortal dislike to the high, ragged note, to what he called random ravings. The Portrait of a Lady
The great cave behind the falls is the roosting place of hundreds of swifts; at evening they dart in and out of the gorge before braving the torrent to spend the night behind Kaieteur's curtain.
She had seen him sweat and shake and retch in the grip of his craving.
Engraving, or incising, to use Wood's term, refers to cutting into the plaque to form the design so that the face of the plaque is flat, the design inset as an intaglio.
Hardwood veneered plywood, however, takes laser engraving very well.
So, we would fight all the way to church, ranting and raving, screaming and yelling.
Craving the arancini at Galleria Umberto, she drove in the other day, hoping to win the scramble for parking before the pizzeria sold out.
The work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. Les Miserables
In engraving, fine lines are incised directly into the plate and the burrs removed to produce clean, sharp lines on the print.
Concurrently with these experiments, Levi-Montalcini made “a secco” engravings on white paper, whose reliefs produced variations of light. Paola Levi-Montalcini.
They must curb their carnal cravings and submit to the will of the Lord.
For example, you can satisfy a sugar craving with a tea sweetened by licorice root.
Turns out my plagiarist is taking a class with him too, and Tom starts raving about this Joyce paper the kid wrote. Horseman
This is the first exhibition devoted to Ruskin's engagement with printmaking examining his use of various methods, etching, woodcut, mezzotint and steel and copper engraving.
They make us hyper and overexcited and, once faded, leave us grumpy or exhausted or or tearful or craving more.
The techniques involved, including repoussé relief, inlays, enamelling, filigree, engraving, and hatching, are those of exceptionally skilled designer-craftsmen, who held a deservedly important position in society.
The artists took incredible care in producing the original watercolors, engravings, lithographs and aquatints.
From the outset, and despite the image of the rough and tough cattle farmers braving all in the outback, Australia's history has largely been an urban one.
There is no well organized system for training apprentices in photoengraving, stereotyping, and electrotyping, or in any of the lithographic trades, except that of poster artist, in which an efficient and strictly regulated system of apprenticeship is maintained. Wage Earning and Education
The archaeologists last week unearthed engravings of a bison, another ibex, part of a horse and some triangular shapes.
Now you can safely satisfy your cravings, since those very cravings have been transformed.
I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact.
Chris Weitz Movie something different than other Directors movie,they always trying to graving a massage to public. NEW MOON Director Chris Weitz is Hiring THE GARDENER – Collider.com
Even at low pressures the sandblast gives a very granular texture to the designs that is quite different in appearance and touch from wheel engraving or acid etching.
The monk reached down, took it out, and peered at the intricate engraving of Chinese characters.
I'm afraid France took engravings and etchings, while it was a frightfully disappointing year for reliefs, with no gold medal awarded at all. Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up | Marina Hyde
As Tamara had foretold, after the night of the joyance Danlo found himself craving solitude, and he avoided talking to people. THE BROKEN GOD
Her grandfather, the first Isaac Taylor, was the son of a brassfounder at Worcester, and while learning his father's business, early showed a talent for Engraving. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
Hunger cravings can take control and send you on an eating binge that can actually lead to weight gain!
What interests us here is not so much the completely irrationality of Carr's ravings, but the underlying reason for it.
Originally he produced engravings after drawings he owned, or drawings that were owned by his patrons. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
A plenitude of maps and engravings documents these commonly distorted perspectives and traces the development of a more accurate understanding of the newfound lands.
In a Guardian article, the former foreign secretary says the prime minister's "muscular liberalism" offers little to people who are craving what he calls a "greater sense of security" in an ever changing world. David Miliband attacks David Cameron's 'muscular liberalism'
In between ranting and raving I watch football.
Over a thousand of his drawings were published in numerous books of engravings. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
If you have a particular need - such as untamable carb cravings or severe lethargy - your priorities may be different.
He put up the money for him to open a photoengraving shop with two partners. Portrait of An Artist
He had known it, the rest of his friends were raving lunatics.
That this famous work was perhaps the finest set of colored engravings using aquatint is not even mentioned, much less explored.
Although I was trying to quit smoking, the beer gave me a bad craving and when Mike went for a smoke, I followed and asked to bum one.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
The blade features 24k gold-filled engravings of Hoyt.
Consumerism is a bottomless pit of self-indulgence and excessiveness that, rather than being fulfilling, leaves people craving for still more.
The antidepressant drug bupropion can help control nicotine cravings.
Behold, here there begins an eternal craving and continual yearning in eternal insatiableness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
Braving the icy torrents of white water in the Victorian Alps, personnel from the School of Artillery discovered the true meaning of adventurous training.
She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving.
Fitness festivals In the same way some people are now raving sober, other s are going to festivals for health reasons. Times, Sunday Times
The left bank cru borgeois wines can also be good bang for the buck wines in great vintages if your craving a cooler climate cabernet sauv based wine. What We Drank (July 7, 2009)
So you ate a candy bar after lunch or gave in to a craving and ate a banana split.
Each tale is well written with real characters somewhat hyperbolized to portray aspects of a city that James Frey satirically describes as craving to become the twenty-first century number one international metropolis in spite of NFL meaning not for Los Angeles. Bright Shiny Morning-James Frey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
A product called Crave Control claims to curb sweet-toothed cravings with a sniff of a patch stuck on the wrist.
She stresses the importance of protein in diets to stop cravings and satisfy the body's need for nourishment.
Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
In fact, you can even cook the rice, the chicken and the pepper and onion mixture in bulk, then quickly nuke them and throw this burrito together in minutes when the craving hits.
You are either a total genius or else you must be absolutely raving mad.
Accompanying that soul-spelunking is a profound craving for sanctuary, for a feeling of safety Scorpios rarely get to enjoy.
It was the purging of this "hyssop" that made it possible for him even in the "Marguerite" poems, to write as only those can write whose passion is more than the craving of the flesh. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure. Underworld
But surely people were constantly raving about the way she looked? Times, Sunday Times
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving. The Newcomes
I've already got an intense craving for next week's episode. The Sun
This is clear as soon as we reach the second chapter, in which the contrast drawn between lithography and fine burin engraving exposes aesthetic mythologies specific to each.
Craving forgiveness for the liberty I am now taking, I have only to add, by your Grace's desire exprest in a letter to my early friend Capel Lofft Esq, that the Annual amount of the Gratuity I have recived is Fifteen Pounds. Letter 271
There, he has lived for the past 30 years, mastering lithography, oil painting, watercolor, gouache, drawing, engraving, sculpture and ceramics.
It is thought to lower cravings for alcohol in people who have stopped drinking, but it is not exactly clear how it works chemically.
Yesterday she was braving a chilly wind for a pot of tea outside Sid's Cafe in the town centre, and wondering why she had left behind the 90 degree heat of Arlington.
It is lively with a busy bar downstairs and a very good restaurant on top that satisfied my craving for a cheese fondue. The Sun
It does not mean that he is in a psychotic state or raving mad, but it indicates your finding in a legal way.
Blackburn magistrates heard that David Ainsworth was ranting and raving during the assault, calling his former wife a ‘slag, a whore and a slut’.
The Winchester Model 21, which is by no stretch of the imagination a fine gun, brings very serious money, and the engraved and inlaid versions command princely sums, even though the engraving and inlaying is done at a third-grade-art-class level. Why Big-Dollar Guns Are Worth The Money
I don't think I could eat it now, any protein cravings I might get I could satisfy with beef and the brain is no longer so accepting of odd bits to eat. Horsing Around Down at the Carniceria
The west front, in our Engraving, is occupied by an hexastyle portico of the Ionic order, with fluted columns. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829
Once the iron sheet is buffed to give it the dull sheen the engraving work is taken up.
All nicotine replacements do is reduce the cravings and mood swings a bit. The Sun
My wife was informed that craving clay is somewhat common in pregnant ladies. The Volokh Conspiracy » News every parent can use
How serious is your craving for a cigarette, for alcohol? Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
Only the cornerstone of the building had been laid when the engraving was made.
The drug addict will do anything in order to satisfy the cravings for the taste of the hallucinating drugs. Dr T.P.Chia
In the Netherlands there was initially a craving for all things French, for France represented the epitome of modernity and luxury.
A sweet tooth One of the most curious symptoms of candidiasis is a craving for sugary foods or for foods containing yeast.
I'm afraid Jean-Paul has gone raving mad.
These are not, you have to believe, the cynically high-minded ravings of a politician who merely wants to get re-elected.
It also decreases the craving for cigarettes, alcohol and sugar. The Family Nutrition Workbook
the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work
We just have to nerve ourselves up, overcome the surprising yet overwhelming craving for some beta-blockers and a Marlboro Red, and do the best we can.
Fred Wah from Breathing My Name With a Sigh are origins magnetic lines across an ocean migrations of genetic spume or holes, dark mysteries within which I carry further into the World through blond and blue-eyed progeny father’s fathers clan-name Wah from Canton east across the bridges still or could it all be lateral craving hinted in the bioplasmic cloud of simple other organism as close as out under the apple tree? Fred Wah
He stood there for about twenty minutes ranting and raving about the colour of the new paint.
The intaglio printmaking techniques are engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint and are discussed in part two of this article.
a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums
Therefore, are these desires real cravings or can they be resisted? Times, Sunday Times
You may have cravings and feel more hungry than usual. The Sun
He seemed to think the recorder was The Way to teach us music so he must have been a raving psychopath.
There have been many other dissenting voices protesting the sale of public sector companies but these have been largely disregarded as the predictable ravings of the lunatic Left.
Since she was a child, Elliott has loved the outdoors, so she's used to braving unsavoury weather conditions.
The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring. The Heart Of Queens | Disinformation
It takes a while to get past the craving for the caffein and sugar high, but once done it makes a huge difference. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite.
Credit to both sides for braving the elements and playing this game but, really, the weather contrived to make good football impossible and this game was very one-sided indeed.
Which means less ranting and raving when you get home. The Sun
There always someone graving foa a position that makes them selfis and liers ... Poll: Lowering deficit more important than boosting economy
There's a liberal sprinkling of referentiality, Easter eggs of nods to other writers, and to particular pulp stylings, and a lot of that intertextuality is going to be lost on those who haven't read the type of thing I'm riffing off, but the key conceits are maybe not so hard to grasp without a grounding -- the book itself, the Cant, gravings, angels. What is Literary Fiction?
Others less concerned with added sulfites can satisfy their organic cravings with wine labeled ‘made from organic grapes.’
They certainly have one vocal demimondaine and craving consummate pandering Senator who is currently lusting for the American Presidency. The Democrat Demimondaine and Consummate Pandering Politician: Hillary Clinton
Joey Gallo, the "Ubazze", decided at the spur of the moment to satisfy his craving for scungilli at a little family restaurant on Mulberry St, not knowing it was owned by Matty "The Horse", of the rival Colombo family. Friends and Family #17
You'll see the concentric circle in very many of the religious paintings, and also engravings further inland.
Some people combine a patch with gum to get through the hard parts, the cravings.
Why should they be interested in my mad ravings?
Evelyn at a concert, for which I had tickets, but I was too tired to go; this morning we went to hear Dr.P. Brooks, the great preacher who everyone was raving about last spring in London, (or was it _last_ year?) his church is like a great _temple_, or public hall, and cost [pound symbol] 180,000. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters
Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry.
Sure, they got awards, but critics were also raving over junk.
A long course of training is necessary to instruct a man in the business of jewelling or engraving, and if the cost of his training were not made up to him in a higher rate of wages, he would, instead of learning so difficult an art, betake himself to such employments as require hardly any instruction. Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
The course organiser provides practical hints to help break the routine, fight the cravings and stay positive through the whole process.
She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps.
My fellow men were ugly brutes, caring only for their immediate needs and base cravings.
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
The absurdity of the plot clashes with the show's craving for social realism.
Average daily earnings in photoengraving, stereotyping, electrotyping, and lithographing occupations, 1915 205 Wage Earning and Education
If you're craving this type of decor, you may be leading a stressy life. Times, Sunday Times
I no longer had cravings for sweet or spicy food. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
Forewarned is forearmed: If you know a food craving will strike, you can outwit it, rather than surrender to it. The Small Change Diet
After this it might be used in its simple condition, or ornamented with engraving, while the bottom of the foot, still rough from contact with the pontil, was to be ground, smoothed, and then polished. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
How serious is your craving for a cigarette, for alcohol? Successful Fasting -the easy way to cleanse your body of its poisons
She was ranting and raving and stamping her feet like a child.
And now Caroline had to usher them upstairs, to help them to unshawl, smooth their hair, and make themselves smart; to reconduct them to the drawing-room, to distribute amongst them books of engravings, or odd things purchased from the Jew-basket. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
They, it seems, were copied from books of engravings and photographs or from pictures painted by others.
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
But let's be honest, when you spend 16 hours a day in a delirious state of prandial deprivation, your cravings rival those of a pregnant woman. Sarah Khan: Ramadan Rumblings
A hardy crew of charity fund-raisers will be braving the icy waters of Windermere for the annual New Year's Day dip.
Acamprosate influences transmitters in the brain and reduces the craving for alcohol.
The nicotine inhaler is short-acting, which means it can control sudden nicotine cravings and withdrawal symptoms for short periods of time. All MayoClinic.com Topics
Two of the strongest cravings of human nature are the desire for knowledge and the desire for power.
I don't care if it is loud, ugly, or ineffective, and I don't infer that it is anything but fabulous, the engraving is enough to sell me. diddy dum diddy do When is a Rifle Not Accurate Enough?
Blackpool pub landlord Hamish Howitt, 55, who is an anti-smoking ban campaigner, is promising to stand up for working class smokers, while the Cleethorpes-based Generalist Party and The Official Monster Raving Loony Party have also announced their intention to field candidates. Archive 2008-06-01
The drug addict will do anything in order to satisfy the cravings for the taste of the hallucinating drugs. Dr T.P.Chia
The craving for variety rather than for quality is one of the chief causes of England's being Europe's gastronomic sump.
Before you scoff at the idea of him having feelings for a tone-deaf, entitled ditz, get this: He's not the only one with a Sugar craving. Mega Buzz: A CSI Goodbye, Claire's Modern Politics and an NCIS Triangle
The vendor's insane ravings do not throw any light on the matter.
Between braving our savage hound and three tours to Afghanistan in four years, I reckon our postie Dave has earned a copy. A Bit of a Grumble « Tales from the Reading Room
You might help to counter the raving loons that have used his comment section to attack him too.
There is jewelry incorporating hair, enamel, engraving, casting, and die-stamping, as well as objects made from unusual materials such as tortoiseshell, wood, and vulcanite.
When you fuel yourself with foods that your body is craving, make a note of how they've sated your appetite or how you felt after eating them.
Learn the cause of intestinal yeast overgrowth and how to fix it to overcome cravings for sugars and other high-carb foods.
So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication. Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
And he said he was a fan, and then like Stephen King, and Bernardo Bertolucci went on Leno and was just raving about it, so that really helped. Collider Goes to Dinner With Mike Judge – Collider.com
With its higher percentages of cocoa solids and cocoa butter, this is what hard-core chocolate craving is all about.
Each girl once was 1 to have no lachrymal angel, being her to ran into a beloved boy and the had tears, the angel shed tears, depraving the human life.
People were saying he'd come in and be ranting and raving, but he's not like that.
-- With engravings and diagrams showing the Siemens and Halske marigraph and the operation of the same. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
The familiar phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ rings quite true as spectacular engravings and prints bring to life fascinating events in the history of ballooning and heavier-than-air flight.
To Britain, this may sound like the ravings of lunatics.

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