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  • Ravenous.

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  • adjective Having ravines

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Examples

  • I traced the geography of his face: from the cliff of his cheekbone to the whirlpool of his ear to the laugh lines ravined beside his mouth.

    My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

  • The coast of Upper Normandy, on the contrary, was steep, a high cliff, ravined, cleft and towering, forming an immense white rampart all the way to Dunkirk, while in each hollow

    Pierre And Jean 2003

  • The road still led through the hills, a road that wound up from the deep-ravined rivers of the Portuguese border, but there were newer and better roads to the south.

    Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

  • As far as the village of Borodino the high road lay along the north bank, but it then crossed over to the south side, and followed the general direction of a deeply ravined tributary brook.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • As far as the village of Borodino the high road lay along the north bank, but it then crossed over to the south side, and followed the general direction of a deeply ravined tributary brook.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Not the smoothly rounded hills of Natal but bills with rocky crests, deeply gullied and ravined between.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • His political exhortations began and ended like the howl of a blood-hound for murder; or, if a wolf could have written a journal, the gaunt and famished wretch could not have ravined more eagerly for slaughter.

    Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

  • The Khamar-daban border-ridge (the summit of a mountain of the same name is 5300 ft. above the lake), falling with steep cliffs towards the lake, fringes it on the south; a massive, deeply-ravined highland occupies the space between the Irkut and the

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The hillsides are deeply ravined and the slopes covered with a dense growth of tussock, which renders progress uncertain and laborious.

    The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

  • They ravined in rings like iniquitous things; they gulped down the Green and the Blue.

    Ballads of a Cheechako 1916

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  • Despite being ravined and desperate, I was unsuccessful in procuring a morsel from the miserable vending machine.

    April 13, 2018