Example Sentences

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Again, there’s no need for anything supernatural to happen for a Joker win to please Azathoth the Devourer.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2020

To hit the Devourer I'll have to move onto something smaller, but for now the strategy is to stay alive.

From Nature • Apr. 4, 2012

There's nothing sophisticated about this Devourer; it's just going for the one thing that's keeping me alive at the moment.

From Nature • Apr. 4, 2012

If the heart tipped the scale, showing that it was heavy with sin, a fierce beast known as the Devourer of Souls would pounce on the impure heart and gobble it up.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

So taking a Bow, which he chose out of a great many, he went up into the Wood, with two Gentlemen, where he imagin’d this Devourer to be.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague