Example Sentences

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The cellphone is a tool that will devour its user, if we don’t fight back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Meanwhile, beyond the gates and gawking tourists, stoats will gobble kiwi eggs and possums will devour our rata leaves.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

The cost will devour most of the $1.25 billion that lawmakers in 2021 initially agreed to spend to build two prisons each housing 4,000 inmates.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023

So it always feels like a big win when something hits the table that all of us will devour while we talk about our days, our plans, whatever.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

“If she does, it will devour her, I know.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein