(a.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insatiable growth of the NHS's demands for cash have never been more graphically illustrated than under the present government.
(2) The Black Lives Matter movement is about more than just justice for our deaths – it’s about a depreciation of black life The War Machine has always had an insatiable need for bodies of color from before the birth of this nation.
(3) In the meantime, its fortunes rest on the British public's insatiable appetite for reality TV shows – and the timeless televisual appeal of dancing dogs.
(4) American Sniper is the latest movie to capitalize on our insatiable hunger for stories about unstoppable commandos.
(5) Five witnesses,” said one newspaper report, “described the situation as one of panic and stated Gill was chasing the animal on a motorbike.” The blurb for his self-published, Nine Lives: One Man’s Insatiable Journey Through Love, Life and Near Death, only hints at the suffering this has caused Gill.
(6) Nucleic acid precursors are amongst the potentially genotoxic compounds for which platelets have an apparently insatiable appetite.
(7) Through his insatiable personal drive, he catalyzed the movement of people and ideas on an international level by organizing numerous postgraduate courses in North America, Europe and Asia, and later Australia and South America.
(8) • Tune in at waywordradio.org The Accidental Creative Today's world has an insatiable appetite for new stuff.
(9) Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images And as more of what used to belong to “us” was sold off and developed by “them”, the hunger for floorplates and square footage and award-winning design and river views became insatiable.
(10) Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described him as the ultimate "ungrateful son" who had an "insatiable thirst for cash".
(11) Whether it is Denmark's happiness, its restaurants, or TV dramas; Sweden's gender equality, crime novels and retail giants; Finland's schools; Norway's oil wealth and weird songs about foxes; or Iceland's bounce-back from the financial abyss, we have an insatiable appetite for positive Nordic news stories.
(12) That causes a clash between contradictory impulses: unruly urge for freedom and independence on the one hand, and insatiable yearning for harmonic community, that means, for imperturbable warm-hearted human relations on the other.
(13) Where most public companies – and all governments – have nowadays little desire for risk, they appear to have an insatiable appetite for it.
(14) On one hand, Pulgasari is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron.
(15) The past 10 years have seen an explosion in stories to meet the seemingly insatiable demand for quality drama.
(16) It’s the sickness of those who insatiably try to multiply their powers and to do so are capable of calumny, defamation and discrediting others, even in newspapers and magazines, naturally to show themselves as being more capable than others.
(17) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.
(18) Extended clinical neuropsychological evaluation documented all the characteristic features of the syndrome described by Klüver and Bucy following bilateral ablation of the temporal lobes in adult Rhesus monkeys, including "psychic blindness," oral exploration, hypermetamorphic impulse to action," lack of emotional responsiveness, aberrant sexual behavior, and an insatiable appetite.
(19) As his relevance increases so does the insatiable yearning for their source to yield more.
(20) It has only provoked an insatiable demand from the public for more "free" services, with the result that the system has become a quagmire of cost overruns and unfulfilled and unrealizable promises.
Lupine
Definition:
(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.
(n.) Wolfish; ravenous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(2) Nitrogen retention in lambs fed raw, dehulled lupins was equal (P greater than .10) to that of lambs fed SBM.
(3) Antibodies for EF-1 from yellow lupine have been obtained in rabbits; antibodies for wheat EF-1 were elicited in mice.
(4) In another experiment the effect of cooking-extrusion on lupine flour (L. albus) was investigated and the chemical composition, protein efficiency ratio, methionine supplementation and digestibility of the protein were measured.
(5) Energy retention was depressed (P less than 0.05) with the three lupin-seed meals and the meat-and-bone meal.
(6) The structure of the CO complex of lupin leghemoglobin II in solution is compared with the X-ray crystal structure of the cyanide complex by comparison of observed and calculated ring current shifts.
(7) Hungry delphiniums, water-loving astilbe and drought-tolerant lupins would all be muddled together, with the thirstiest plants dictating the watering regime.
(8) The comparative study of different methods for the purification of bean yellow mosaic virus isolated from lupine has been made.
(9) In Experiment 2 raw and extruded lupins were fed at 10, 15, 20, and 25% of the diet for 16 wk.
(10) It showed the maximum sequence homology (24%) with lupin leghaemoglobin (Lb).
(11) From the partial sequence of lupin tRNA(Gln) we suggest that it will have readthrough properties.
(12) Leghaemoglobins were extracted from the root nodules of lupin (Lupinus luteus L.) and serradella (Ornithopus sativus Brot.)
(13) pGS5 was sequenced (1043 bp) and computer-assisted homology searching revealed a high degree of conservation between this lupin partial cDNA clone and other plant glutamine synthetases at both the amino acid (greater than 90%) and nucleotide (greater than 80%) level.
(14) Dehulled lupins commercially roasted at low, moderate, and high temperatures resulted in ruminal in situ N disappearances of 59, 47, and 43% for the respective temperatures.
(15) Moreover, the time of the LH peak was advanced by both lupin supplementation and GnRH treatment.
(16) The largest level of glycogen was detected in bacteroid forms from lupine nodules and especially those of the pea after inoculation with ineffective strains: in comparison with the bacteroids from nodules of effective bean-Rhizobium symbiosis, it was 2.5--3.0 times as high.
(17) Extraction of germinating-lupin cocyledons, followed by ion-exchange and gel chromatography, gave two alpha-L-arabinofuranosidases and three beta-D-galactopyranosidases.
(18) Merino wether weaners were exposed to toxic lupin stubbles for periods of one, two and six to nine weeks, and the effect on their liver copper, selenium and zinc concentrations studied.
(19) In the case of lupine and soybean 43 nucleotides upstream of 5S rRNA gene exhibits 100% of homology.
(20) Supplementation with lupin grain significantly increased ovulation rate by 37% by increasing the proportion of ewes with two ovulations.