The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding.
Before he knew it, he had more animals on his hands than his snakes could devour.
Or, some of us (many of us), devour 14 in a row with breaks just for bathroom and answering the door for the delivery man.
I am more determined than ever to get into Gaza just so I can sit on the beach and devour this Bedouin feast with my hands.
You get the sense that they want to eat each other, to devour each other.
The maddened flames leaped and crackled as if to devour him.
In this region there are whole nations of cannibals, who devour their captives.
Beneath his wheedling air there was the determination to devour everything.
Eager, hungry breath it was, like that of hounds seeking to devour him.
The wolf, that runs away from a lion, will devour a lamb the next moment.