Example Sentences

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The spruce bark beetle, or Ips typographus, has been munching its way through the conifer trees of Europe for decades, leaving behind a trail of destruction.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

Infested, she means, by an invasive insect called the emerald ash borer, which for years has been munching its way across North America, leaving huge patches of dead forest in its wake.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Ireland has been munching doughnuts since long before the Dunkin’ Donuts franchises appeared in the 1990s.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2018

The leaf roller is defoliating birches in Alaska, while the gypsy moth has been munching leaves in New York.

From Time Magazine Archive