devours
- present tense form of devour (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In India's tech capital Bengaluru, the morning "rush hour" lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy.
From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025
That hot, hard rock devours conventional drill bits and makes a hash of the concrete usually poured deep underground around the steel pipes required to line such a well and keep it from collapsing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
He devours newspaper reports of the assassination — “I always read my reviews” — and keeps a diary that he he hopes to see published when he escapes to a reborn Confederacy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024
It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
