devourer
Americannoun
plural
devourersExample Sentences
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That species is the zombie worm, formally known as "the bone devourer" Osedax.
From Science Daily
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
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
He mentioned reading about a blog post written by a former priest secretary of Mr. McCarrick’s, K. Bartholomew Smith, which labeled the disgraced cardinal “a devourer of souls.”
From New York Times
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