(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.
Satisfied
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Satisfy
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
(3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
(10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
(14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
(15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
(16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
(17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
(18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.