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.
The snakehead, a particularly nasty beast of a fish from Asia, is highly aggressive and a voracious predator.
As a three-year-old with a voracious appetite, he can easily down 15 mint brownies in one sitting.
So powerful was Doc's association of reading with eating, that he not only devoured books as a boy, but he also voraciously read cereal boxes if the paper was not at hand.
One reason is the voracious world demand for timber. Times, Sunday Times
The naked mole rat goes by many names, including the potentially misleading "sand puppy" which might imply that these voracious diggers are cute and friendly fellows.
Sounds like my similar experience with an equally voracious eater with a tight frenulum and one inverted nipple (me). The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother
Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
Peter was a voracious reader, a tireless networker, intrepid and fearless at approaching the biggest names, and dogged in working with authors to finish their manuscripts.
Children have voracious appetites for authenticity, but in drama we should never intimidate them with factual information.
Hedgehogs have a voracious appetite for the birds' eggs.
He's just voracious in his appetite for learning. BAD BOY BALLMER
The muskox are particularly voracious consumers of plant material. Canada.com
The one thing handed down by my father and father-in-law is a voracious love of reading. Times, Sunday Times
The magazine had a voracious appetite. Ford Madox Ford
A voracious appetite, omnivorous, suitable for a bear.
This was my first movie back at work, and I had such a voracious appetite for acting.
Rearing enough host insects to satisfy the predators' voracious appetites, after all, doesn't come cheap.
Guests of honor include Haikasoru pal Jeff Vandermeer, who so recently interviewed us on the Omnivoracious blog, and the theme of the convention is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. October « 2009 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.
So voracious is China's appetite for turtle that it has all but eradicated its own turtle population before turning to the export market.
With their voracious appetite for stored cereals and nuts, the red flour beetle and its kin cause millions of dollars of damage annually.
There may be some truth to that. My son, who suffered the flash card assault, was by age 7 the family's most voracious reader.
Large, invasive, and voracious as adults, bullfrogs often out-compete - and often eat - native amphibians.
The Pilbara has boomed in recent years as China's voracious demand for iron ore to feed its construction-driven economy has put a premium on ore from the region, the country's nearest overseas source of high-quality ore. Rio Tinto Plans $3.1 Billion Iron Ore Expansion
That voracious demand, and weakness in the dollar in which it is priced, has driven gold to these new heights. Times, Sunday Times
China's economic growth has made it an increasingly voracious consumer of what it recycles. Times, Sunday Times
paying taxes to voracious governments
The voracious demand for labor to gather latex and heat it into balls of balata fell on the indigenous peoples of the region, providing the central theme of this book.
It was a dorado or dolphin fish, a voracious predator which feeds mostly on flying fish.
The ham was massive, and even this voracious assault had barely made a dent in its snacky deliciousness.
Strong-willed, sexually voracious Alys Robi in Ma vie en cinemascope incarnates the spirit of Quebec and its contradictions.
Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century. Save the endangered tree octopus « raincoaster
I'm not in the least bit Gandhian, people who're voracious and magpie-minded and unfocussed and unpolitical and far from noble usually aren't, and I'm one of those.
These migratory diving birds winter in the Delta region, where they voraciously feed on channel catfish fingerlings and any other fish they can swallow.
It is supported in its nefarious activities by a popular press acting as piranhas voraciously feeding on the shreds that remain.
Over the past 30 years, a global outcry against using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, has led to the resurgence of the mosquito, a voracious consumer of human blood and carrier of infectious disease. Scott Dodd: Climate Change Drives Dengue Fever Re-Emergence in U.S.
The kinds of public spending cuts necessary to curb the Government's voracious appetite for debt will be brutal. Times, Sunday Times
However, this species is both aggressive and voraciously ichthyophagous.
The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
The other woman is the dead man 's mistress, married and voracious. Times, Sunday Times
The method helps the cuckoo chick secure the food supply it needs to satisfy its voracious appetite.
Throughout his life he read voraciously about the great figures of European romanticism and symbolism.
He was a voracious consumer of biographies and current affairs, and one of his party tricks was the soft-shoe shuffle. Times, Sunday Times
His teaching skills came to the fore in fine lectures and addresses, which reflected his voracious reading. Times, Sunday Times
Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day.
He's just voracious in his appetite for learning. BAD BOY BALLMER
Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
In countries like Indonesia and Vietnam coral reefs are being poisoned with cyanide and stripped of their fish to satisfy this voracious live fish food trade.
Almost as wide as he was tall, he had a voracious appetite for food and drink and a rollicking personality to match. Times, Sunday Times
Now we are a nation of voracious bargain hunters. Times, Sunday Times
The twenty-four pieces gathered here reflect voracious curiosity, wanderlust, and encyclopedic knowledge of peoples, places, rituals, and religions.
BELLY During the three to five years that the chinook is at sea, it feeds voraciously, building stores of fat to sustain it during its spawning run. Natural History Facts about the King (or Chinook) Salmon of the Pacific Coast and the Great Lakes
The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
He has a voracious appetite for film study, takes detailed notes in meetings and does plenty of technique work on his own.
Short stories, about suffering African kids who have so far failed to attract the voracious eye of Madonna Ciccone, by an unpublished Nigerian God-squadder? The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
His teaching skills came to the fore in fine lectures and addresses, which reflected his voracious reading. Times, Sunday Times
A voracious reader, he is already into reading Tamil books, magazines and newspapers.
Now we are a nation of voracious bargain hunters. Times, Sunday Times
Moles have a voracious appetite and can eat 70-100 percent of their weight daily.
He had an inquiring intellect, a voracious appetite for science and a direct involvement in the operation of government. Times, Sunday Times
she reads voraciously
Many wrasses are specialized and voracious feeders, as reflected by the highly variable skull and body shape, modified pharyngeal jaw, and prominent canines.
They are a voracious pest, and, as I can testify from a couple of years ago, can defoliate an entire bush overnight if left to their own devices.
A voracious reader, Vea is adamant about the pursuit of writing excellence.
Rather, it voraciously records anything in view; in other words it is firmly in the realm of the contingent.
The company's voracious appetite for acquisitions was opportunistic and did not follow a strategic plan, the report continues, and made it difficult for investors to compare results from year to year.
The girl shares her stories with the enthralled young heir to the Sultanate, who returns again and again to hear incredible yarns about one-armed heroes, hunchbacked ferrymen, giants, voracious gem eaters, conniving hedgehogs, harpies, djinns and singing Manticores. Descent Into Cleveland
The animals are voracious predators. Times, Sunday Times
He has passion for movies and a voracious appetite for the genre.
However, the cosmic X-ray background, primarily made up of emissions from quasars, suggests that there must be many more of the voracious objects than could be accounted for by those currently known about.
Fire bloomed and ate voraciously into the enemy ranks, sending screaming soldiers gushing fire like Gondoan candles fleeing blindly from the carnage, yet still they boiled from the passes.
The latest reports on this show that Senator Domenici is suffering from Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, which causes "disinhibition, neglect of personal hygiene, mental rigidity, perseverative behaviors, voracious appetite and hyperorality. Breaking: GOP Senator Pete Domenici To Retire
The Black Goby is familiar, tamable, but voracious; the Gray Mullet is very hardy, but also rather savage; the Wrasses are some of the most showy fish, -- called in some parts of the country Cunners, -- and of these, the Ancient Wrasse, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
The eelpout-burbot, lawyer, ling, or freshwater cod-is a voracious, deep-dwelling fish that looks like an eel on a serious course of steroids. Mushing, Eelpout, and Butterballs
Let's take a look at some of these "avid" -- that's always the word, "avid," unless it's "voracious" -- book readers: "I go into another world when I read," said Charlotte Fuller, 64, a retired nurse from Seminole, Fla., who said she read 70 books in the last year. Archive 2007-08-01
A voracious food and game fish(Pomatomus saltatrix) of temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Together, Linux clusters and object-based storage clusters deliver commodity-like supercomputers able to keep pace with increasingly voracious applications.
Its voracious demand for raw materials has caused prices to spike.
He skim-read voraciously, but did not read for pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
The cigarette consumption is voracious - he chain-smokes throughout our interview and has previously smoked his way around the golf course.
voracious sharks
He had an inquiring intellect, a voracious appetite for science and a direct involvement in the operation of government. Times, Sunday Times
That voracious demand, and weakness in the dollar in which it is priced, has driven gold to these new heights. Times, Sunday Times
Frank's in good spirits and is reading voraciously to overcome the frustrations of his recovery.
Trolls are savage, rubbery grey - green skinned giants with a voracious appetite for flesh.
Betting companies have not merely benefited from the voracious appetite of sports to take their dollar, but also from technology. Times, Sunday Times
One reason is the voracious world demand for timber. Times, Sunday Times
I had a happy childhood in the classic English bourgeois fashion: I read voraciously, I explored expansive gardens, I dare say I even forded a stream or two.
The muskox are particularly voracious consumers of plant material. Canada.com
One more tragedy caused by the voracious appetites of men determined to consume all the diminishing resources of fish left in the seas.
Even the smallest amount of food left out after a meal would very quickly become the centre of a heaving mass of voracious brown bodies, with long lines of ants converging from all corners.
On one of the few remaining green leaves a caterpillar is feeding, not with the voracious fervour of the newly hatched but with slow deliberation, as if forcing down a few final mouthfuls. Country diary: South Uist
He fluctuates ambiguously between sexual identities: On the one hand, he is hyperbolically heterosexual, with a voracious appetite for women; on the other hand, he is effete and always primped.
However, just the thought of waking up, to find some Xbox-ing berk on the next pillow, asking if he can use the phone to tell his mum where he is, is surely enough to make the most voracious cougar want to retire quietly to the next room and hang herself with her support tights. Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen
I also adore sleeping, and babies don't seem to have the same voracious appetite for sleep I do.
The voracious predator has a quarter-inch stinger that pumps out a dose of venom with an enzyme so strong it can dissolve human tissue.
As predicted, we got enough judo on Japanese television to sate all but the most voracious appetites.
I have rarely encountered a celebrity who has so voraciously invaded her own privacy.
The Osmia's larvæ, in fact, contrive to enclose themselves in an egg-shaped cocoon, dark brown in colour and very strong, which preserves them both from the rough contact of their shapeless cells and from the mandibles of voracious parasites, Acari, [5] Cleri [6] and Anthreni, [7] those manifold enemies whom we find prowling in the galleries, seeking whom they may devour. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
There are 3,000 red deer on the Black Mount and, as in the rest of Scotland, they must be culled regularly if they are not to cause serious environmental damage: deer, voracious munchers, strip the land bare.
The result is a cross section of voracious consumers who rapidly acquired a reputation for being buyers of logo'd bling rather than discerning connoisseurs. Times, Sunday Times
The men were apparently looking to feed India's voracious appetite for gold. Times, Sunday Times
By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio.
In fact, she wrote out of a lifetime of voracious reading, as well as close observation of the world. Times, Sunday Times
It seem entirely fitting that his own voracious academic and literary activity should be rooted in a city that takes such an obvious pleasure in all that the mind and body can absorb.
Koran: -- '_Eat ye and drink ye, but not to an excess_:' -- eat not so voraciously that the food shall be regorged from thy mouth, nor so abstemiously that from depletion life shall desert thee: -- though food be the means of preserving breath in the body. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
Clearly, the choreographer's wit and voracious appetite for movement continue to serve her well.
The men were apparently looking to feed India's voracious appetite for gold. Times, Sunday Times
Our biggest chains have voracious appetites and are hungry for more. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
One moment this most voracious variety is knee high to your clematis, the next it is tickling your guttering.
Or are the few crabs that we see so voracious that any new recruit stands little chance of survival?
Ever since her childhood she had read voraciously.
These voracious predators consume some 500 pounds of food each day.
Its voracious appetite for materials is driving up not only commodity prices but ocean shipping rates as well.
Successful storage of this precious annual harvest was threatened by the large populations of rats and mice, which fed voraciously in the rural estate granaries and the towns' communal silos.
Its cousin, yellowfin tuna , known as hamachi to voracious sushi lovers, has begun to shrink—the first sign of a population crashing due to overfishing.
Japanese carmakers are the most voracious users. Times, Sunday Times
Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.
The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
His voracious appetite forces my wife to get up at all times of the night to feed him.
[43] As the little fellow grows and is about a year old, he writes to Agricola, “My Johnny is lively and strong, and a voracious, bibacious little fellow.” Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
Walburga once suppressed the voracious appetite of a child by having her consume three ears of grain.
Apart from their voracious appetite for native species, another worry is that they will burrow into riverbanks, adding to the problem of erosion.
All this came back to me recently during a voracious reading session for my new gig -- my publisher has asked me to scour the cobwebby archives for volumes of forgotten lore for a new e-book series. Varla Ventura: Paranormal Parlor Games
He was a conservationist, a wry observer of human behaviour, a voracious reader, a great storyteller, a fearless reviewer.
Despite the ferocious sandflies and equally voracious mosquitoes, entrepreneurs see Okarito as a town of opportunity.
A voracious collector faced with the existence of a really appropriate item, an obsessive item. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Miners are concerned that resource nationalism is leading governments like Baluchistan to push for a greater take in the profits of projects through increased equity stakes, taxes or royalties, at a time when companies are struggling to satisfy the voracious appetite of emerging economies like China as they rapidly industrialize. Pakistan Gold-Copper Project Faces More Obstacles
Europe has a restrictive law, but neither an army of bureaucratic enforcers nor packs of voracious trial lawyers.
Jared has been voracious since then, reading well above his level, and everything he can get his hands on.
The naked mole rat goes by many names, including the potentially misleading "sand puppy" which might imply that these voracious diggers are cute and friendly fellows.
A voracious dolphin was harpooned, in the maw of which was a barracouta in Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
Swiftly served and voraciously consumed but like most Indian eating experiences, the meal is limited on pudding.
In fact, the only thing he did act upon was his increasingly voracious appetite for sex, food and expensive luxuries.
To make up for this seeming gap, he became a voracious reader, very eclectic in his taste.
Now steroids are used all the time in medicine, and they are very useful, but they give you the most voracious appetite.
I was a little disturbed that he had a voracious appetite for potato chips and would leave the empty wrappers all over the floor.
Now we are a nation of voracious bargain hunters. Times, Sunday Times
There has, in my opinion, never been an advertising medium with as voracious an appetite for new images and ideas as the internet.
The mulloway feeds voraciously on other fish, and is itself a favoured prey of human anglers.
The larvae of the emperor dragonfly are themselves voracious predators, armed with fearsome mouthparts known as a 'mask'.
In fact, she wrote out of a lifetime of voracious reading, as well as close observation of the world. Times, Sunday Times
The most voracious debt will invariably do the most psychological damage.
Throughout his life he read voraciously about the great figures of European romanticism and symbolism.
By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank cassettes: LPs, concerts, tunes from the radio.
They have proved not to be the undiscerning and voracious predator of the movies but intelligent and selective.
This news is leaked to the press, who feed off it voraciously, hampering the investigation.
Even in the excerpts Smith herself quotes from Netherland, there are vivid desciptions of place, which Smith herself admits (‘But in practice Netherland colonizes all space by way of voracious image.’), images which even seem to explore the relationship between time and space, though of course I will need to read the novel before stating this with any conviction. Zadie Smith, Mark Thwaite, Negativity and Whining for the New
Over the Dolphins stadium's public address system, Bailar asked God, "Father and Mother of us all," to protect his "gentle dophins" from the "voracious beasts of prey" and to "limit ... the obfuscations of sportscaster Howard Cosell acidulous tongue, so that he may describe this night truly and grammatically as it is... Shirl James Hoffman, Ed.D.: Joe Nelms' Prayer Perfect For NASCAR Event
He read voraciously for himself, and began to write occasional verses when he was still at school.
There will never be another Pavarotti, he believes, never again that combination of angelic face, voracious appetite and a voice to die for.
Now we are a nation of voracious bargain hunters. Times, Sunday Times
Massive lesions soon form in the lungs and brain, as a few thousand bacilli propagate within days into literally trillions of voracious parasitic microbes. The Wrong Man
Incredibly, the voracious varmints passed them up, perhaps because larkspurs, both flowers and seeds, are toxic (something to consider if you have livestock or chewing pets).
China's economic growth has made it an increasingly voracious consumer of what it recycles. Times, Sunday Times
The kinds of public spending cuts necessary to curb the Government's voracious appetite for debt will be brutal. Times, Sunday Times
Malapterurus electricus is a voracious piscivore, hunting and stunning its prey using its paralyzing electrical organ discharge.
Only an attack by a voracious swarm of midges then spoilt a leisurely paddle under a warm, summer sun on a perfect, windless day.
An elderly, crusty monster of a man, with a voracious appetite for drink, and a vocabulary of approximately twenty words - all of which have subsequently entered the fecking public lexicon.
Its larvae bore voraciously to and fro along the grain of the wood, generally under a thin, intact surface.
Because of their voracious appetites, bats function as extremely effective and pesticide-free pest control.
This voracious beastie uses enormous amounts of resources and creates large quantities of pollution.
Probably the little diodon of the Amazon has a similar means of revenging itself on the voracious monsters to whom it falls a prey; and though it might not be able to liberate itself through the scaly back of an alligator, it would inevitably kill the monster, or cause him such pain as to make him repent having swallowed so indigestible a morsel. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.
In the months leading up to moving to Bulgaria, I became a voracious reader of every item on the news agency wires referring to the country.
He eats the piece voraciously in several huge bites dropping the remainder.
During the 19th century most countries developed a voracious appetite for paintings of historical events, running the gamut from fancy-dress confections to work with more serious aims.
Working day and night, I had a voracious appetite, perhaps a psychological reaction to the pressure.
But from the earliest to the latest, in the largest as well as in the smallest, the one most remarkable feature of the formula is the voracious appetite of the Ka. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Rosies are voracious eaters, consuming almost anything and everything.
If we remain with our arms crossed, we will remain in the hands of organized crime, we will always live in fear," the president said in the essay, which also blames Mexico's violence on the United States 'voracious appetitive for illegal drugs. 10 Mexican Federal Officers Killed In Latest Drug-Gang Attack
She has been practising voraciously over the winter, and is determined to nail once and for all any accusation that she is a fair weather golfer.
Gleefully, my offspring grabs at the gobbets of uncooked lamb, squeaking and cheeping as she voraciously devours her meal in a matter or a few minutes.
He was a voracious reader and fond of quoting philosophers.
The insect was later confirmed to be an Egyptian grasshopper, a voracious plant-eater normally found only in the Mediterranean area.
A precocious child, he read voraciously and soon revealed an extraordinary aptitude for languages.
Sticklebacks are voracious omnivores and feed on a variety of food including some algae and invertebrates such as insects, snails, small crustaceans, and some types of small worms.
The bookworm reminds the authors of the vulnerability of books, not only from voracious insects, but also from the acid in the paper that is destroying our books.
Mostly, though, she collected books: not as a rare book collector, but rather as the voracious reader she was.
I became a voracious reader of the literature on the act of self-annihilation. History of a Suicide
M.Donald, 56, rises around 4: 30 a.m. to exercise and often ends the day feeding a voracious reading appetite; right now, he's working on the new releases "Too Big To Fail" by Andrew Ross Sorkin and "Yalta" by S.M. Plokhy on his Kindle e-reader. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The vines were thick and heftily wooded, larger than any plant life a desert dweller could ever imagine, and more voracious than the most haggardly pack of wolves.
Some animals feed voraciously in summer and hibernate in winter.
Betting companies have not merely benefited from the voracious appetite of sports to take their dollar, but also from technology. Times, Sunday Times
She was an intelligent girl and a voracious reader; most of the dusty old tomes that came into her possession didn't even stand a chance.
Once The Wife got home and we reviewed her shots they're here if you're curious I potted up some passion vines I'd gotten in trade, then cleared away a heck of a lot of passiflora vines from the front of the house that'd been denuded of vegetation by voracious caterpillars. Archive 2009-06-01
The ODA Loan from China was used to macadamize the “corruption highway” engineered by trusted VIP i.e. voracious and inept people and supported by the Chinese in exchanged for bigger concession in Spratley Islands. The Money Trail
One problem for me as a blogger is that I read voraciously but write very dilatorily and distractedly.
Almost as wide as he was tall, he had a voracious appetite for food and drink and a rollicking personality to match. Times, Sunday Times
For a few days a number of cedar waxwings visited the pyracantha along with the robins, and the waxwings were just as voracious in their consumption of the berries as the robins were.
Since then the Irish capital has seen insurrection, civil war and voracious property development.

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