The hungry dog ate the delicious bone.

Meaning: A dog that is feeling a need for food consumed a very tasty bone.

Choice of Words: Hungry means feeling a need for food. Ate means to consume food. Delicious means very tasty or pleasing to the taste.

Alternative Expressions

The famished canine consumed the delectable osseous structure.

Meaning: This sentence also tells us that a dog who was feeling very hungry ate a bone that tasted very good, but it uses more formal language.

Choice of Words: Famished is a more formal word for very hungry. Canine is a formal word for dog. Consumed is a more formal word for ate. Delectable is a more formal word for delicious. Osseous structure is a more formal way of saying bone.

The ravenous pooch devoured the scrumptious calcium stick.

Meaning: This sentence also tells us that a dog who was feeling very hungry ate a bone that tasted very good, but it uses more informal language.

Choice of Words: Ravenous is a very informal word for very hungry. Pooch is an informal word for dog. Devoured is an informal word for ate that suggests eating something quickly and eagerly. Scrumptious is an informal word for delicious. Calcium stick is an informal way of saying bone.

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