devour
verb (used with object)
to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
had been devouring
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past perfect progressiveof devour.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Monster Slayer used those arrows to destroy the monsters that had been devouring the people.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
She had been devouring the prince's substance and Steiner's, too, with her childish caprices, and yet she had no notion where her money went.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Miss Ellen, who was a great reader, had been devouring a book on the Kaiser of Germany, and she demanded Mr. Meredith's opinion of him.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
When the afternoon train from the south drew into Gledsmuir station, a girl who had been devouring the landscape for the last hour with eager eyes, rose nervously to prepare for exit.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
Prussia, whom for five years we had been devouring, and whose alliance was hollow and compulsive?
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
