devourer
Americannoun
PLURAL
devourersExample Sentences
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This realizes what Joan Didion describes in her 2000 New Yorker essay about the “unusual bonding” and “proprietary intimacy” Stewart creates with us — her people, her consumers, her devourers.
From Salon
When Tamira explains to Sam that the jar contains a monster — later explained to be the Pishach, "a flesh-eating devourer of souls" — Sam causes the vessel to break, and the demon is unleashed.
From Salon
In comic books, Galactus is known as the devourer of worlds.
From Washington Post
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon
Following a wary dance back and forth the two men fall into a rhythm recognizable to devourers of that era's serial killer films set.
From Salon
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