Ruth Reichl

Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.

American Chef

Jake Tapper

I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.

American Journalist

Carlo Collodi

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

Italian Writer

Chris Evans

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

American Actor

Kristen Stewart

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

American Actress

Jean-Paul Sartre

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

French Philosopher

Andy Jassy

I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth.

American Businessman

Gregg Wallace

I always eat breakfast as I've just come out of gym and I'm ravenous for protein.

English Celebrity

William Shatner

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

Canadian Actor

Nadia Giosia

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

Canadian Chef

Use 'ravenous' to describe an intense, almost uncontrollable hunger, more than just being 'hungry'.

Extreme Hunger

'Ravenous' often implies a need to eat immediately and with urgency.

Urgency Implied

Use 'ravenous' metaphorically to describe a strong desire or ambition, not just for food.

Non-literal Usage

When 'ravenous' describes a longing, it emphasizes a very powerful and consuming desire.

Intensity of Desire

When used in contexts of animals and nature, 'ravenous' emphasizes their predatory and powerful instinct to hunt.

Predatory Nature

'Ravenous' can underline an organism's survival instinct, suggesting a fierce and desperate need for food.

Survival Instinct

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 entirely across the room for me, because I will eat it all. I will. And that brings up another thing that makes social disconnection so dangerous. If we don't have the ability to connect socially, we are so ravenous for our social neurochemistry to be rebalanced,

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 which can become the fodder for those ravenous mouth bacteria. So while ancient humans did eat less sugar compared to us, their teeth were still exposed to sugars. That doesn't mean they were unable to treat their cavities, though.

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 A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation. These aren't horror movie concepts. They're real stories, but how could such situations exist in nature?

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 talked about a ravenous creature CATIA which you know what would satisfy its its insatiable jaws but you know they were at least observing and kind of translating shark behavior into their world but in the

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 The great white's turn-of-speed is powered by a high metabolism. They only thrive in cold temperate seas, for only these waters contain sufficient food necessary to fuel such a ravenous predator.

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 If we plan to discourage lonely locusts from becoming catastrophic crowds, humans need to cut carbon emissions, rethink our agriculture, and generally reconsider our own ravenous appetites.

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 Thermal imaging shows 50 organisms in the area, and you quickly realize that that number includes both your fish and some ravenous sharks. You flip on the sonar to get a better look.

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 Okay, that felt like more of a bite. With the smell of blood in the air, I'm suddenly surrounded by ravenous, drooling jaws.

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 a monster the length of a man with a ravenous appetite

Ravenous

Very hungry.

Greedy for gratification.

Preying upon other organisms for food.

Extreme Hunger

Urgency Implied

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