Get to know Voracious better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like rapacious or ravening.
Voracious meaning
- Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- Having a great appetite for anything; eager.
Synonyms of Voracious
Using Voracious
- The main meaning on this page is: Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. | Having a great appetite for anything; eager.
- Useful related words include: rapacious, ravening, acquisitive, edacious.
- In the example corpus, voracious often appears in combinations such as: voracious reader, the voracious, was voracious.
Context around Voracious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Voracious
- In this selection, "voracious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, likeminded, seeing, reader, appetite and predators stand out and add context to how "voracious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a voracious reader and and all seeing voracious eye of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "voracious" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with voracious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Francis is a voracious reader and prolific writer. (8 words)
By middle school, he became a voracious reader, a neighbor said. (11 words)
Merv was a voracious reader, collector and loyal New York sports fan. (12 words)
Wickedly funny, a voracious reader, notorious penny pincher, and a reveler in his own political incorrectness, Scozzafava served as the Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman of Finance, as well as its institutional memory and razzar-in-chief. (38 words)
Bahamian locals swear by the existence of this sea creature called the Lusca, and they describe it as a cross between a predatory octopus and shark with a voracious appetite for anything that moves. (34 words)
In terms of Lalonde’s first stab at fiction writing, he said he’s always been a voracious reader, and it occurred to him that he had his own stories to tell. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Culture can also be the reason why one person reveres the wolf while another views it only as a voracious predator.
Her future success can be traced back to her voracious appetite for knowledge.
In terms of Lalonde’s first stab at fiction writing, he said he’s always been a voracious reader, and it occurred to him that he had his own stories to tell.
Merv was a voracious reader, collector and loyal New York sports fan.
Oh, they take many forms: farm out agreements with another likeminded voracious oil dragon, this one from Europe; whether British or Dutch, the new enslavement flourishes.
The falling savings rate is further compromised due to the voracious appetite of government borrowing, both at the Centre and at the state levels.
The voracious predators have already made their way into the adjacent Stillwater and Penobscot rivers.
A voracious reader and an unhappy soul who, like Frank herself, longed to be a writer.
Colman was terrific and deserved to win for her funny, sad take on the voracious and vindictive Queen Anne.
He was a voracious reader, and his brilliance and quick wit will be impossibly missed.
In addition, China’s voracious demand for mineral resources and other commodities is what’s kept most economies in Sub-Saharan Africa humming.
In the early ’70s, Iggy Pop was a voracious consumer of recreational drugs.
Named for the dark vertical stripes found on juveniles, the Tiger Shark is one of the ocean's most voracious predators.
One of these Symbiotes named Venom bonds itself to Eddie, thus giving him otherworldly powers and a voracious appetite.
The canton now wants to stop the spread of the voracious plant pest.
What's on them has been tested in focus groups and carefully manufactured for maximum impact — not to move people but to catch the all-seeing, voracious eye of the camera.
Wickedly funny, a voracious reader, notorious penny pincher, and a reveler in his own political incorrectness, Scozzafava served as the Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman of Finance, as well as its institutional memory and razzar-in-chief.
Bahamian locals swear by the existence of this sea creature called the Lusca, and they describe it as a cross between a predatory octopus and shark with a voracious appetite for anything that moves.
By middle school, he became a voracious reader, a neighbor said.
Francis is a voracious reader and prolific writer.
Common combinations with voracious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: