devourers
- plural of devourer.
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
"Quite excellent, ... can be confidently recommended to the devourers of light fiction."
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
Without their services as devourers the population would die like flies, from epidemics and pestilence.
From A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Bayne, S. G.
Having directed his vision and attention to the horrid white glistening webs, all lined with their brood of black devourers, I left him to draw his own conclusions.
From Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Kemble, Fanny
