devouring
Example Sentences
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The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
She never finished high school, but compensated for her incomplete education by devouring books and absorbing ideas.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Work was really devouring me,” Luis Saavedra said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
If Ehrlich was right, and people were devouring the Earth’s resources, then the price of those resources would go up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
How we’d celebrate, slapping hands and devouring apples, or whatever we’d scored.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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