devourer
noun
a person or thing that devours.
devourers
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pluralof devourer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example 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 ● Oct. 30, 2024
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
Watch the fruit on the wall trees, and keep off the devourers, of which there will be numberless kinds swarming about them during this month.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
No real foe of yours is known in heaven, nor in earth, ye devourers of enemies!
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Again, it should not be in the great overgrown mammoth-hotel of the town, with three hundred daily devourers, and a steam-engine to slice the bouilli.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
