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adjective

voracious

CEFR C1

excessively greedy and grasping

In a sentence

Six example sentences with voracious, each labelled with its topic.

  • A voracious bidder swallowed four regional chains in one year, borrowing against each purchase to fund the next.

    Finance

  • The novel's landlord is voracious, raising rents twice a season and buying the cottages his tenants leave behind.

    Literature

  • Colonial trading companies were voracious, taking timber, ore, and shipping rights faster than any treaty could record.

    Economics

  • The voracious railroad barons of the 1870s bought judges, legislatures, and rival lines with equal appetite.

    History

  • The conglomerate was voracious, swallowing a supplier one quarter and a competitor the next until regulators finally stepped in.

    Business

  • Voracious developers took the wetland acre by acre, until the last heron colony sat between two parking lots.

    Environment

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