Adjective : an omnivorous reader. From Dictionary.com.
Original portrait by the omnivorously talented Justin Pasieka. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
He read omnivorously and played the piano for hours at a time. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
He read omnivorously -- Hogg says as much as sixteen hours a day. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
She plucked still, but neither so ruthlessly nor so omnivorously as of yore. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
Having little to do in the way of teaching, he had made up for it by reading omnivorously. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
This is not a question I would ask most students, but of course I know how omnivorously you read!. From Wordnik.com. [The Waste Lands]
Even Marcel, only five at the time, watched omnivorously as mule trains and river boats unloaded. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
I've suggested that the best way to learn to write is to write, but I think the next best way is to read—omnivorously. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
He's got opinions on every topic-but he's never drunk, he's omnivorously well briefed, and he's right 80 percent of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Sugar] Reference
He attended lectures in jurisprudence "as a necessary evil," but he read omnivorously in subjects that were nearer to his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
A: I read omnivorously, including literary novels, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, techno-thrillers and the occasional romance. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Patricia Bray] Reference
There could be no doubt that in this future the Dominion had won the war, and had assimilated the cultures of the Alpha Quadrant as omnivorously as had the Borg. From Wordnik.com. [THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS] Reference
We commemorate the passing, on September 19th, of this omnivorously curious and immensely prolific writer with a profile of him written by Wendy Saul upon the occasion of Meltzer receiving the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2001. From Wordnik.com. [Milton Meltzer, 94] Reference
He read omnivorously, corresponded voluminously, and listened more intently to a wider variety of perspectives than the best journalists in America, none of whom had been born a slave to an illiterate mother and to a father who never claimed him. From Wordnik.com. [Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington] Reference
He read omnivorously, and, throughout his literary lifetime, he made it his business to collect and to collate, to classify and to catalogue, innumerable fragments of character, of history, of current news, of evanescent yet vital stuffs of all sorts. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
I don't know how many of these are suitable for kids, because my parents didn't bother supervising my reading as a kid, so I ended up reading voraciously and omnivorously--I'm probably the worst person to ask when it comes to kid-suitability of books. From Wordnik.com. [Create-a-curriculum] Reference
I wrote my first novel in India, in Bombay, where I read as omnivorously as I had as a child, rereading classics that I borrowed from the old-fashioned, musty, beautiful university library that seemed to have acquired almost nothing written after 1920. From Wordnik.com. [Close Reading] Reference
Well, one could imagine those arms, growing paler, also growing thicker and more formidable with that unceasing labour; the muscles feeding themselves omnivorously on their own waste, the cords toughening, the bone-tissues revitalizing themselves without end. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
10th line from top of page read "omnivorously" for. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the War of Secession] Reference
Cousins spent the semester reading omnivorously on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Early on I read voraciously - omnivorously, and indiscriminately. From Wordnik.com. [SF Signal] Reference
(no subject) - omnivorously - Apr. 6th, 2010 07:47 pm (UTC) Expand. From Wordnik.com. [Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic] Reference
He has read omnivorously, and has but selected most of his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Socialism] Reference
At the University he sought no academic distinctions, but read omnivorously. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
I think this is supposed to be a reflection on how the shape of our jaws allows us to eat omnivorously. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
He read omnivorously, saw many and varied things; the universe was spread out before him like an enthralling play. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
They found Gustavo hovering omnivorously in the courtyard, hungering for news; Constance summoned him to her side. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Junior] Reference
He read a lot; he started to read and then, of course, in prison read omnivorously and we had these late-night conversations. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The jackasses, immediately they entered the meadow, made a bee-line for billboard and began omnivorously to pasture off the lithograph. From Wordnik.com. [A Book Without A Title] Reference
Now, in his quiet, sober intervals he read omnivorously, and worked out problems in physics for which he had a taste, until the old appetite surged over him again. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Lights] Reference
Indeed he seemed to have read and studied omnivorously and not a week passed that he did not add to his store of learning some interesting romance of a pair of old. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and the Clockmakers] Reference
Though he was the life and soul of every social gathering, and in constant demand, he still read omnivorously, and his mind naturally occupied itself with high themes. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
He had read omnivorously, and all that he had read he remembered, not merely in the vague, general way in which we remember what we read, but with every particular of place and date. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Magic Door] Reference
Harrington, now in possession of a fair weekly income and unlimited leisure, bought new clothes, rented a sitting-room, bedroom, and bath in a comfortable bachelor apartment-house, and spent his days browsing in libraries, where he read omnivorously. From Wordnik.com. [Many Kingdoms] Reference
Well, 1) I’ve been reading omnivorously in the genre since I was thirteen, but my secret loves aside from historicals, of course) are paranormal and futuristic romances. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » April Hot Read – The Duke of Shadows] Reference
Please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. From Wordnik.com. [How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand] Reference
I read omnivorously, in mystery, spy thrillers, memoir, literary fiction, history. From Wordnik.com. [ON THE BUBBLE WITH DENISE HAMILTON] Reference
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