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

For hours they had been devouring, eating up the muslin fed to them.

From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White

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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The Mah�s and the Floches embraced, they who had been devouring one another for three centuries.

From The Fête At Coqueville 1907 by Meyer, L. G.

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 Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de