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ravenous

Meaning

Characterized by an intense and insatiable appetite.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

After hiking all day, I was ravenous. My stomach rumbled loudly, and I felt like I could eat anything in sight. Nothing would satisfy my intense and insatiable appetite until I had a huge meal.

The explorer, lost for days, felt a ravenous hunger gnawing at his stomach. His parched throat ached for a single drop of water, and his mind fixated on the imagined taste of dried rations, a gnawing need that would not cease.

The explorer, lost for days, felt a gnawing emptiness. Every rustle of leaves promised food, but nothing appeared. He was ravenous, his stomach a hollow drum, desperate for even the smallest morsel to silence the constant ache.

After a long hike, Tim was *ravenous*. He could have eaten a whole pizza, then the box, and then maybe the table. His stomach growled like a grumpy bear who'd missed breakfast for a week.

Barnaby the badger, after a mild nap, felt a hunger so strong it made his tummy rumble like a tiny earthquake. He was, frankly, ravenous, his desire for grubs and roots so intense it threatened to consume the entire forest floor.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

After days lost in the woods with no food, he felt a deep, gnawing hunger. He saw a rabbit and became ravenous, a primal urge taking over as he chased it with all his might.

The desert explorer, after days without water, felt a ravenous hunger gnawing at his gut. Each shimmering mirage offered no relief, only amplifying the desperate, insatiable need to find sustenance before his strength completely failed.

The deep-sea submersible’s limited power reserves dwindled. Outside, a massive, unblinking bioluminescent anglerfish, a creature of pure hunger, circled the viewport, its cavernous maw a testament to its ravenous nature, waiting for the slightest flicker to signal a meal.

After a 12-hour hike, I felt ravenous, a hunger so deep I could have eaten a horse, then its saddle, and maybe the saddlebag for dessert. My stomach was staging a full-scale rebellion, demanding immediate appeasement with all the pizza in the tri-county area.

After his epic dumpster dive behind the artisanal cheese shop, Bartholomew emerged, a ravenous beast for half-eaten brie. He eyed a discarded pickle spear with the intensity of a hawk spotting a field mouse, its briney promise a siren song to his empty, grumbling stomach.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

After a week of fasting, the prisoner was ravenous. His stomach ached with an intense and insatiable appetite, a gnawing emptiness that consumed his every thought. He imagined feasting, unable to escape the consuming need for sustenance.

After days adrift on the nutrient paste, the sole survivor felt ravenous. His stomach churned with a desperate, gnawing emptiness, an intense and insatiable appetite demanding sustenance that wasn't there. He scanned the desolate horizon, hoping for anything to quell the burning void.

After three days adrift, the survivor’s stomach gnawed with a ravenous hunger. He imagined the taste of the preserved rations, a desperate craving that overshadowed the constant fear. Every instinct screamed for sustenance.

The starving artist, after a week of subsisting on inspiration and dust bunnies, was ravenous. He eyed the plump pigeon waddling past with a disturbing intensity, contemplating whether the creature's feathers would be palatable with a hint of existential dread.

After a strenuous day wrestling a particularly stubborn kraken for its elusive, diamond-encrusted pearls, Barnaby felt a hunger so ravenous, he could have devoured a whole fleet of galleons, masts and all. The salty sea air only amplified his insatiable appetite for a celebratory, triple-decker whale sandwich.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

After days traversing the parched desert, the lost caravan felt utterly ravenous. Each individual’s gnawing hunger was a palpable torment, a desperate craving that consumed all thought of anything but sustenance.

After three days trapped in the sub-basement, his stomach, a cavern of pure need, felt utterly ravenous. He imagined a colossal platypus, its beak agape, a truly insatiable maw that mirrored his own desperate yearning for sustenance.

After a week of meticulous arcane research in the dust-laden library, the scholar emerged, his stomach a cavernous void. He approached the communal repast with a ravenous intensity, devouring the meager rations with a desperation that startled his peers, his hunger an immediate, undeniable force.

The starving artist, after a week subsisting on stale crusts and creative angst, found himself ravenous, a state of intense and insatiable appetite that made even the thought of yesterday's gruel a tantalizing prospect. He eyed the pigeons with a most undignified gleam.

The cryptid, a being of pure, undulating antimatter, possessed a ravenous appetite for existential dread. It would voraciously consume nascent notions of free will, leaving philosophical quandaries as barren, echoing chasms. Observing its spectral mastication of abstract concepts was a disquieting spectacle.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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