What's the difference between hungrily and ravenously?
Hungrily
Definition:
(adv.) In a hungry manner; voraciously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor, was desperate for some reassuring morsel to feed the bankers hungrily circling the floundering pound.
(2) Their home, however, also happens to sit atop the Marcellus shale bed, believed to be one of the world's richest, which is being eyed hungrily by oil and gas companies lobbying the governor, Andrew Cuomo, to allow them to frack.
(3) Those changes now mean that investors across the region – and beyond – are eyeing Burma hungrily.
(4) It gloops hungrily along, oozing cash like a snail trail, digesting every politician and policymaker in its path.
(5) The camera still feasts on his beauty now that he's pushing 60 as hungrily it would on any 1955 MGM contract starlet.
(6) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?
(7) The club, facing another red tax bill, accepted the investment hungrily.
(8) But this time the Tory tiger feasted on the fresh carcass of the Ukip vote while Labour and the Lib Dems could only prowl hungrily on the sidelines, and received a few deep scratches from the Tories’ claws while they were doing so.
(9) Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia’s president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
(10) United were hungrily looking for more goals when Cole caught them with too many men upfield nine minutes from time, an endearing trait that Moyes would be unwise to try to stamp out.
(11) Gaskell was already hungrily plotting the biography, which she convinced herself was an act of charity.
(12) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
(13) We meet at her agent's office, where she's just finished an ideas meeting, and she buzzes hungrily between thoughts.
(14) Having decided to become a writer I read hungrily, for pleasure as much as to learn.
(15) In the pre-match build-up, Inter manager Jose Mourinho has been busily peddling his unique brand of nonsensical waffle masquerading as profundity and as usual the press pack have been hungrily lapping it up.
(16) Lessing, for her part, fell hungrily on the theatre, music, museums, but in other ways found London frighteningly flattened, people's energies leeched away by rationing and having to cope.