Example sentences for: appetites

How can you use “appetites” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Henry VII was followed by Henry VIII, a man best remembered for his gargantuan appetites, his dissipative lifestyle, his troubled marriages, and his rocky relationship with the Catholic Church.

  • By the time American appetites outgrew their democratic origins, local sturgeon had become scarce.

  • The metaphor would be better if left suggestive, if the strange new appetites were somehow the product of anxieties associated with American westward expansionism and "Manifest Destiny."

  • The gross appetites of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox must be sated.

  • Arab trade with India had long since whetted the appetites of the Muslims; when Indian pirates plundered their ships off the coast of Sind in 711, it provoked the Governor of Chaldea (now Iraq) to send troops with 6,000 horses and 6,000 camels to conquer the Sind rajas and offer the alternative of converting to Islam or death.


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