[ US /vɔˈɹeɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /vɔːɹˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    a rapacious appetite
    ravenous as wolves
    voracious sharks
    edacious vultures
  2. excessively greedy and grasping
    ravening creditors
    a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
    paying taxes to voracious governments
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How To Use voracious In A Sentence

  • There should be plenty of thunder left in the powerful arms and lower body he has developed since arriving in America as an underfed teenager with bright eyes and a voracious appetite for success.
  • Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
  • The titbits his own hunting skill provided were insignificant when set against his voracious appetite, and it was the duty of his parents to make up the difference.
  • The magazine had a voracious appetite. Ford Madox Ford
  • He had an inquiring intellect, a voracious appetite for science and a direct involvement in the operation of government. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dominant image of Hong Kong is its spectacular skyline; the enduring sentiment, the voracious urbanism that skyline evinces.
  • Our biggest chains have voracious appetites and are hungry for more. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
  • I am enormously impressed by the warm welcome you gave me, and by all your questions and your voracious enthusiasm.
  • Cod are voracious feeders sometimes and will pick up a multitude of offerings in certain places and at various times of the season, so whatever you use, do make sure it is in the best possible condition.
  • Under the influence of all sorts of things, including real-life doctor drugs, I turned into a voracious drooling gorgon.
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