devouring

Example Sentences

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Devouring four episodes left me no closer to knowing where the season would land.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2023

Warlocks look like they’re about to get super powerful in Season of the Risen, thanks to Devouring Rift legs.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2022

Devouring rock biographies and music magazines, Mercuriadis knew he lacked the musical talent to be the next Neil Young, but thought he could emulate his legendary manager, Elliot Roberts.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2021

The Prado used a Lucida to scan Goya’s “black paintings,” including “Saturn Devouring His Son.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016

The Shah who saw In secret all had order’d; and the Flame, Directed by his Self-fulfilling Will, Devouring utterly Absál, pass’d by Salámán harmless—the pure Gold return’d Entire, but all the baser Metal burn’d.

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward