ravening's Usage Examples:

could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests, or remain.

prophets, which come to you in sheep"s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

as "A hungry lion, a ravening wolf, a cunning fox, a dirty pig and an impudent dog".

This work contains Percy"s musings on "ravening particles," a reference to the alienation and anomie the individual feels.

of Keddie in 2013 as "an elaborate oil rendition of a photograph that trivialises the art of painting and that of photography, as well as apparently contravening.

angelical! Dove-feather"d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show!" etc.

In 1831, Vernet seized three US vessels and imprisoned their crews for contravening his regulations on sealing, prompting a raid by the USS Lexington.

It is alluded to in Romeo and Juliet, where a character is called a "wolvish ravening lamb.

from his place, even in the ravening of hunger, but will wait in divine slothfulness for the sacrifice.

mentions a temple of Ares Otrera and Antiope built in a desert island full of ravening birds.

particular ("Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather"d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show!" etc.

The Abbot of Ely described him as "A hungry lion, a ravening wolf, a cunning fox, a dirty pig and an impudent dog".

preying on livestock; the locals referred to it as a raubsüchtiges Ungetüm (ravening monster).

Synonyms:

wolfish, ravenous, gluttonous, rapacious, voracious, esurient, edacious,

Antonyms:

unassertive, nonindulgent, thirsty, undesirous, abstemious,