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Voraciously

Voracious \Vo*ra"cious\, a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to devour; akin to Gr. ? meat, food, ? to devour, Skr. gar. Cf. Devour.] Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
--Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.

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voraciously

adv. in a voracious manner

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voraciously

adv. in an eagerly voracious manner; "she reads voraciously"

Usage examples of "voraciously".

Both of her desperately quivering orifices were voraciously sucking in on the dually fucking instruments within them .

I daresay Maggot also had dined to repletion, but he companionably and voraciously continued to eat for as long as I did, perhaps because this may have been the first time he had ever been allowed to eat at a table indoors.

A mild childhood astigmatism worsened when she was thirteen: she started bumping into things and found it increasingly difficult to concentrate on the entomological textbooks and journals that she read voraciously.

In that chamber, where a gaunt, hairy beast of a man in leather breeks squatted gnawing a beef-bone voraciously, stood the machines of torture - racks, boots, hooks and all the implements that the human mind devises to tear flesh, break bones and rend and rupture veins and ligaments.

Kevin, eating voraciously, saw Diarmuid speak briefly to Carde, who quietly sought the innkeeper and withdrew into another room with him.

Sitting over odious cocky-leeky, I plunged my whole hand into the slops, chewed voraciously with open mouth as the fat dripped down my chin, then belched to make the leaves tremble.

In this he was much aided by Micah, a sallow, serious child who read voraciously and who had a vocabulary even greater than his erudite father's, for often while the Whipple and Janders children were roustabouting near the mission grounds, Micah Hale, with nothing better to do, sat hunched inside the wall reading for pleasure either a Hebrew dictionary or Cornelius Schrevelius' Greek-Latin Lexicon.

When the linen order arrives, the smart cookies fall onto it voraciously, stashing stacks of the valuable objects anywhere they can hide them.

He read voraciously in his usual manner, and viewed videotapes, and learned that with the atmosphere still so thin and cold, all the new ice released on the surface was subliming until its exposed surfaces were fretted to a minute lacework.

His fingers tunneled in her hair, fisted there to hold her to him while he kissed her voraciously.

On the second day he was sitting up unaided and eating voraciously, by the third he was managing the ship from his litter, and on the fourth day he was on his quarterdeck once more, although his arm was in a sling and he was still pale and gaunt where the fever had wasted away the flesh from his face, but strong enough to keep on his feet for an hour at a time before resorting to the rope chair the carpenter had rigged at the rail.