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Example sentences for "voraciously"

Lexicographically close words:
voortrekker; voortrekkers; voot; vor; voracious; voracity; vord; vorderasiatischen; vords; vore
  1. He followed the lady to her castle and ate voraciously of her supper, but was quite impenetrable to all her amorous advances.

  2. They knew not how to yoke the cattle nor raise a harvest, nor provide from present abundance for future want; but browsed like beasts upon the leafy boughs, or fed voraciously on their hunted prey.

  3. There are, however, a considerable number of other trees, particularly the souak, the branches of which are eaten voraciously by our camels.

  4. No herbage for camels is found in these parts, and we had been compelled to carry some with us from Wady Haghaneen, and to wake up with dates, of which the camels ate voraciously as a treat.

  5. They feed voraciously on coarse substances; and as they increase in size, which they do very rapidly, they cast their skins three or four times.

  6. They now venture out, at first during the mildest days only, and feed voraciously on the young leaves, returning to their homes to rest.

  7. The young larvae often make their first meal of the shell, and then attack the food plant so voraciously that they are fully grown in about three or four weeks.

  8. Even before his accumulators failed, generator after generator burned out, the defensive screen collapsed, and the red converter beam attacked voraciously the unresisting metal of those prodigious walls.

  9. An epidemic had visited the district, and the worms ate voraciously and refused to spin--a disease which he believed to be beyond the power of medicine.

  10. This domino was of large size, and ate and drank voraciously throughout the entertainment, which lasted many hours, retiring every five minutes or so, and returning speedily with unabated appetite.

  11. Voraciously I watched her smooth face as she untied the thread.

  12. After the decision, the miserable camel was left alone in the Souk, a prey to the flies, which were voraciously feeding on its running sores, till the next day.

  13. The camels, finding nothing else to eat, attacked voraciously their branches.

  14. We dread the bear more in the spring than during any part of the summer, for he is voraciously hungry all the time and goes after cattle, horses, sheep, or reindeer.

  15. Once in a while they get a small piece of meat, which they swallow voraciously in a single mouthful.

  16. He is no longer able to read voraciously on the subject of Heat and Heat-engines.

  17. The motives of the author, however, in deserting the flat in Chelsea, were not entirely due to dreams of lofty achievement, but to the stern necessity to read voraciously on the subject of Heat for his examination.

  18. The reader is invited to assume, therefore, that the author, at twenty-five, was sufficiently talented and ambitious to read voraciously on Heat and a great many other subjects.

  19. Having repaired these vessels, he brought them with a quantity of provisions to Santa Cruz, where his famished colonists eat so voraciously that half of them died.

  20. Cortes immediately purchased all the provisions, which he distributed among the colonists, who eat the salted meat so voraciously that it occasioned diarrhoeas, by which, in a very few days, fourteen of them were carried off.

  21. They feed voraciously and grow rapidly, reaching maturity in about two months.

  22. They feed voraciously and become full grown in a few days.

  23. As soon as hatched the larva devours the eggshell from which it has escaped and then feeds voraciously on the milkweed leaves.

  24. Its aggressive roots ramify through the soil and drink up the moisture so voraciously that if water is not abundant, neighboring trees and plants may find their roots robbed, and the functions of healthy growth will be interfered with.

  25. It is claimed that the boxes are attacked voraciously by rats which gnaw the wood, to which they are doubtless attracted by the odor.

  26. On one occasion when the noise woke me up, I found the culprit voraciously eating a portion of decayed leaf.

  27. Some individuals that I kept alive on board used to spend a quarter of an hour at a time in the water eating voraciously all the while.

  28. But, Arthur, she is false, voraciously selfish, hard as a stone.

  29. In the year of their hatching they attain but half their proper size, but after hibernation they eat voraciously and grow rapidly, so as to attain full size in a little more than a year.

  30. As most animals are marvellously gifted with a knowledge of what food to eat and what to avoid, it is curious that aspersa will eat voraciously the leaves of the spindle-tree, though this soon poisons them.

  31. Generator after generator burned out, the defensive screen collapsed, and the red converter beam attacked voraciously the unresisting metal of those prodigious walls.

  32. He worked hard at his profession, practising occasionally and reading voraciously all books bearing on his studies.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voraciously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.