Example Sentences

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If Ehrlich was right, and people were devouring the Earth’s resources, then the price of those resources would go up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

In the Middle Ages, European farmers noticed the critters were devouring pests, saving their crops in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

When he got there, everything was fine, except that her baby, he discovered, was one of two wriggling black mounds covered by swarms of black flies, which were "devouring the remnants of the placental membranes."

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2025

He and his band were devouring an Afrobeat groove in a tune pointedly titled “All Brothers,” when I glanced at my phone and learned that Nat Hentoff had died, at 91.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2017

The flames were devouring the planking of the wall with a great roaring and crackling, spreading on each side and to the floor above.

From Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters by Graydon, William Murray