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Sentence Examples There it hovered, a dark and foreboding presence, seeming to slather as this new thing to devour came closer. Young bluegills eat mainly zooplankton, but as they grow older, they become opportunistic and devour almost anything that fits into their mouths. Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites. Cooking a massive stack of Anzac biscuits for my workmates to devour tomorrow, and only burning a couple. As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds. The rats scurry around ravenously, and the narrator realizes that they are waiting to devour his warm, dead flesh. My one true passion at the time was to devour anything with abnormally large amounts of sugar, chocolate or toffee. Their laughters are mingled with the roaring sound of the mighty waves, which are much too eager to devour their easy preys. When she is writing poetry she will devour novels, biographies and short stories. It burrows a tunnel far into a sandy bank on the riverside and dwells therein, safe from cold, wind, rain and creatures that would devour it. There are 350 pages to devour, along with plenty of photos of six-guns, single shots, cowboy guns, replicas, autos and more. To gain entrance to this forbidden domain she threatened to break down the gates of the underworld, free the dead and devour the living. Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him. In terms of commercial success, people will devour this bright, clean blues sound. I used to devour them, but now they leave such a sour taste in my mouth and the sourness irritates my insides. Grip the meat with the bread and pull the skewer out, and devour a deliciously spicy and juicy spiedie. At his investiture, the novitiate describes being reduced to a skeleton by spirits who devour and then restore his flesh. Half my guests don't eat meat and are more than happy to devour black empanaditas filled with calamari plied with saffron and squid ink. But contrary to popular belief, he said, the canines don't devour large amounts of garbage or vast numbers of family pets. Your good intentions to eat apples and carrots can get trampled in your stampede to devour apple pie and carrot cake. Show More Sentences I periodically discover an author and devour the majority of his or her opus in a few months. Thomas maintained that she did not devour encyclopaedias for breakfast but picked up her knowledge by osmosis. He would leap chirpily onto my shoulder to devour chicken fried rice, chop suey and even chocolate pudding. House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach. Don't forget, you want him to find you hot, so don't devour your chili dog in two giant chomps. The pit swirled down into oblivion, a thick, cloying miasma threatening to devour him if he drew too close to it. Together we melted into the nearby maize field to devour our ill-gotten contraband. Neither of us said a word as we watched the bright flame devour the cold, stiff copse of our dead son. Half my guests don't eat meat and are more than happy to devour black empanditas filled with calamari plied with saffron and squid ink. Animals often devour the vulnerable mucous membranes of dead animals, instead of trying to burrow through the cowhide. Can we tame political democracy a la our Founding Fathers in 1776 or will we allow it to devour us per Ancient Greece? The scout may devour gleefully a soggy pancake, but an hour later he will be much less enthusiastic. Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world's food and suck up or pollute all its air and water? The wasp larvae that hatch out devour their prey from the inside out, killing the egg or caterpillar in the process. In New Zealand they weigh in at less than half a pound but can devour any prey as large as they are and eat eggs two-and-a-half inches long. And why do these kids always arrive at 5pm and ready to devour any food in sight? She needed only to get a few yards out before being able to see the flames hungrily devour her house. Standing by the fireplace in his living room, Frank stares at the flames as they devour the torn pieces of his wedding photograph. Leaning over, she scatters the remains of the card into the fireplace, watching the flames devour it and leave behind only ashes. A child and his father watch helplessly as the Bhagirathi waters slowly devour Old Tehri town. Show More Sentences I'll hop in, devour a couple of Penguin classics, and emerge further up the road as the most learned freeloader in Argyll. In fairness, I was caught up in this book and wanted to devour it as if I hadn't had anything to read but comic books for a year. She had been watching Hawthorne devour an old Golf Digest Magazine while on a long bus ride. In the pond, fresh-water shrimp and scorpion beetles devour the unhappy wayfarer, and their nearest kin, with equal gustative relish. Mary's bread is without doubt a firm favourite with the girls who devour it after each session. Even when I cooked dinner, which he'd devour with glee, he would feel no sense of reciprocity. The rats then swarm onto and devour any lamed, limping brontosaurus that they come across. I used to devour my copies of Swimming World and read about how my competitors were doing, so when I got to the meet, I knew exactly what to expect from them. I enjoyed the episodic structure, bringing back memories of the compilation books comprised of the classic strips that I used to devour as a child. The iguanas also devour sea turtle eggs and shorebird nestlings. Predators, such as ladybugs and assassin bugs, devour their prey. Well, the time has come for me to devour some chocolate eggs. The critters have the propensity to devour their babies if alarmed and so require a calm environment for breeding. The story is truly frightening, the dead come to life and devour the city. It is an enthralling book of revelations that he peels away like the delicate skins of an onion, constantly delighting his readers as they urgently devour its 483 pages. Remaining undigested by the medusa, the small snail will devour its host from within, growing larger as its host is correspondingly diminished in size. The larvae began to devour the exoskeletal remains of their previous existence with a beak-like mouth extending from the first segment of their worm-like body. In the vision of this chapter, Daniel sees the successive empires of this world as nothing more than grotesque beasts of prey that devour each other. Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug. Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend and devour for themselves. Show More Sentences Before he knew it, he had more animals on his hands than his snakes could devour. Two or more greenfinches will fly some distance to the garden shrub Daphne mezereum L., usually in June, to devour every one of its hundreds of large seeds. And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town. She began to drool mentally, about to devour it right at the moment. Or, some of us, devour 14 in a row with breaks just for bathroom and answering the door for the delivery man. They are ferocious beasts, killers, they devour anything in their path. Since this is supposed to be a no-strings attached arrangement, I have no concern whatsoever when hussies and tramps strip him naked and devour him with their eyes. The group tried but failed to devour the pounds 54 baguette before finally giving in and taking the rest home in a doggy bag. They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles. The ogopogo made no attempt to devour the sailboat crew, as he is reported to have done some years ago in the case of some Indians. Reindeer herded by the Chukchis have been known to devour mushrooms enthusiastically in late summer. To devour a mitochondrion, a cell first swaddles it in a shroudlike membrane, which is then transported to a lysosome. But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival. The lack of light makes the plant devour itself a little, breaking down some of the large aromatic compounds that make it bitter. You get the sense that they want to eat each other, to devour each other. Hedge funds now hover like harpies over any economy that is described as weak ready to devour and befoul any area they can get their talons on. Once he finally tracks down, he follows them on a raid and devour creatures in their path, including scorpion, wasps and a bush cricket. Tiny flowers are perfect for attracting delicate beneficials like chalcid wasps and hover flies, whose larvae devour aphids. Unlife is also presented as a primeval power that may devour human souls, demands human sacrifices, and celebrates death. Species that sharks devour, like seals, for example, would overpopulate and in turn decimate other species, like salmon. Show More Sentences And there was the kid d'Amboise in Apotheosis, a gangle of legs and, underneath a jauntily worn beret, a grin that threatened to devour his face. His nearest rival bowed out after 31 pasties, leaving Pete to devour his 32nd pastie to win first prize and set a new British record. The dogs are by now starving, snowfall having removed the sheep from the fells and cut off their main food source, and they devour Westcott's body. While we couldn't condone this behaviour it afforded us the incredible sight of the mighty beast clambering from the depths to devour the French stick. One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride. For the devoted, this is a rare chance to devour an hour of box-fresh blockbuster braindance that might somehow bring them closer to their master. Learn how a jelly can devour enough food to double its weight each day, or how sea nettles hunt by trailing their long stinging tentacles to paralyze prey upon contact. The best way to eat pluots or apriums is to devour them on the spot. He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour. The outrageous assortment of hungry, pesty beasties devour every possible confection she creates, so in despair, Ma MacDonald sells the farm and flees with her lifemate, Old. Examples from Classical Literature In this region there are whole nations of cannibals, who devour their captives. Caterpillars in the course of a month devour 60,000 times their own weight of aliment. The publishers will print it, the public will devour it, especially if it be anecdotage. Natives of the Bismarck Archipelago are cannibals and greatly fear the ghosts of those they devour. Cetus, you will recall, represents the sea-monster sent to devour Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Behold the array of birds that devour the larvae of the codling moth to an important extent. Beneath his wheedling air there was the determination to devour everything. A sea gull of corresponding color is on the sand, seeking what it may devour. You that are genuine Athenians, devour with a golden epicurism the arts and sciences, the spirits and extractions of authors. They will make a gombo, put a snake in it, and then devour it, and they will wring a cat's neck and drink its blood. A siamang, however, was seen by Mr. Bennett to seize and devour greedily a live lizard. We only scratch Nature skin-deep, and her wealds will devour our black countries. The Hottentots eagerly devour the marrow of the koodoo and other antelopes raw, as a matter of course. The lanner is very partial to mice, and in the wild state appears to devour lizards and other reptiles. They came on with beat of tambour and with war-cries, threatening to devour the strangers. We have known a tawny owl to kill and devour a Kestrel which had been kept in the same aviary with it. Book agents seemed to have a mesmerizing effect on Miss Sally, as serpents daze birds before they devour them. I can't afford to send some bungler who'd mismanage and let the sand-hills devour a half a dozen of my best legions. The natives catch them in small nets, when they come to devour their potato-vines, and parch them over the fire in an earthen pan. Dead breaths I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead. Show More Sentences This by way of grace, whereafter M. de Rivarol proceeded to devour the city. The next thing Grif did was to tear a piece out of the loaf and wolfishly devour it. Why must those loathsome and parthenogenetic green flies devour the tender roses? Run with open eyes into the mouth of that destruction that gapes to devour thee! Creatures which were supposed to be Jurassic, monsters who would hunt down and devour our largest and fiercest mammals, still exist. The moment he sees Cyrah in a caravanserai in Mughal India, his animal instincts to devour her are no match for his finer instincts of love. Then, to Maget's relief, it began to hungrily devour its companion. The wolf, that runs away from a lion, will devour a lamb the next moment. I met a goshawk on my way home, and the bird informed me that he had lately been to Oz to capture and devour some of the young chickens. It picked up the durian which lay there and began to devour it. These, as they devour nectar, dust themselves with the pollen near by. But deign to send away these demons that are there, ready to devour me. That means not using small bait like pogies and mackerel, which they readily devour. She had protected him like a lioness when the big puarka had tried to devour him where he was cornered under the high-piled plantation house. It had been nereid's order to the dragon to seek for and devour Andromeda. Admission to the great peace-loving Combine, may the crabs devour them. The maddened flames leaped and crackled as if to devour him. Next week I shall devour them and think them, no doubt, inane. I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up. Eager, hungry breath it was, like that of hounds seeking to devour him. Show More Sentences Healthy tiger shark populations keep turtle populations in check so they do not devour entire meadows before the seagrasses are able to replenish themselves. Those we loosed as scavengers to devour the bodies of the dead of Torquas. Immediately he took the shape of a harpy, and, filled with rage, was determined to devour his son, and even the Princess too, if only he could overtake them. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab. Friquet, whose eye, ever on the alert, could alone have discovered them, had gone to devour his apricots upon the entablature of a house in the square of Notre Dame. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of devour? Words that rhyme with devour What is the past tense of devour? What is the adverb for devour? What is the adjective for devour? What is the noun for devour? Translations for devour Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words devotion to devotions devotionally devotional devotion devoting devoured devourer devouring devours devout devoutly 6-letter Words Starting With d de dev devo devou