voracity

How To Use voracity In A Sentence

• The old grandfather had died in the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what they called his shark-like voracity. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
• Like the shops in museums, commercialism had taken over the church with the same voracity as it had taken over the art world.
• Mal-Se was a protein creature or endospermic monster which was characterized by an insatiable voracity. Plasma Monster
• The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf. Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.
• All he saw in me was a way to gratify his greed and voracity.
• He can expect to find Sampras, the ultimate serve and volley merchant, claiming a position netside with the same sort of voracity with which a German holidaymaker stakes his claim poolside.
• One, with an index on the Book, cries out, in a style pardonable to his fervency: The remedy of your frightful affliction is here, through the stillatory of Comedy, and not in Science, nor yet in Speed, whose name is but another for voracity. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• But each time the fire seemed to outpace the workmen; the exposure to oxygen actually increased the voracity of the inferno.
• Never was seen such voracity since the days of the ventripotent Heliogabalus.
• The yellow-and-black, bee-sized common wasps are also found in other types of forests but are most concentrated in honeydew beech forest, where, thanks to their voracity, they have largely displaced German wasps.