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• The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.From the entry bare
• The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich.From the entry devoid
• The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.From the entry greedily
• The bookworm devoured her book in one sitting.From the entry in one sitting
• Matt Semrad is an avid reader and devours audiobooks from the library — about one a week.2023 July 2, Brandon Griggs, “We’re multitasking while walking our dogs. Animal experts say this is a problem”, in CNN. From the entry audiobook
• The men devoured the delicious beef stew, boiled ground food and dumplings then the drinking began.2021, H. M. Hanlan, Jamaica's Plantain Tarts, & Marcus Garvey. From the entry ground food
• Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, editors, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the…. From the entry dicey
• The microbes devoured the chlorides in the earth; as metabolic byproducts, they produced toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nepyma. From the entry polychlorinated biphenyl
• Outside the tent, he had a horridsome painting of the monster devouring a poor family of farmers.2008, Alan Lance Andersen, The Frost Haint of 'Possum Hollow and Other Ozark Tales. From the entry horridsome
• Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion. From the entry brush
• At one-thirty Celia served thick lentil soup and after devouring three bowl-fulls, Peter felt less depressed.2005, Nanzie McLeod, “Destiny”, in Tales of the East Neuk, Glasgow: The Hyndland Press, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry bowl-full
• War, the institution, the incessive monster which devours whole peoples, the world has learned to hate.1929, Legislative Documents - Volume 18, Issues 46-57, page 13. From the entry incessive
• The Giants were the offspring of the Fallen angels and human women, who ended up being cannibals and devouring mankind.2020, S N Strutt, Jubilees Insights, page 84. From the entry Naphil
• We devoured the food, and all along we three boys were bubbling with excitement, telling Mom about the hole.2016, Al Bolea, Leanne Atwater, Applied Leadership Development: Nine Elements of Leadership Mastery (Leadership: Research and Practice…. From the entry hoover
• He reached for another candy bar and hungrily devoured it, as fetid drabs of water fell on him from the ceiling.2015, Robert Levy, The Glittering World, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN. From the entry drab
• Techno-geeks devoured the crypto-libertarian science fiction of authors like Robert Heinlein, and they ushered in the computer revolution.2015, Carrie-Ann Biondi, “Counter-Culture Capitalist”, in Shawn E. Klein, editors, Steve Jobs and Philosophy, page 20. From the entry cryptolibertarian
• I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage.2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191. From the entry peonage
• To devour a mitochondrion, a cell first swaddles it in a shroudlike membrane, which is then transported to a lysosome.2009 October 6, Carl Zimmer, “Self-Destructive Behavior in Cells May Hold Key to a Longer Life”, in New York Times. From the entry shroudlike
• As we devour the Earth's resources and despoil the environment, we are driving ourselves into a metaphoric vale of tears.2005, Daniel Hillel, “Epilogue: The Lasting Relevance of Early Ecological Influences”, in The Natural History of the Bible: An…. From the entry vale of tears
• The unfriend betrays me, ignores me, denies me, breaks me down; the unfriend is against and tries to devour my personhood.1999, Kees Waaijman, John Vriend, The mystical space of Carmel. From the entry unfriend
• To add insult to injury, sundew’s summer flowers are usually pollinated by the same unsuspecting flies that they devour.1997, Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, Up North Again: More of Ontario’s Wilderness, from Ladybugs to the Pleiades, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN…. From the entry unvegetarian
• As the slain foxes dropped into the water the snouts of river crocodiles popped up and devoured them.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 154. From the entry fox
• It was the wharfinger, seeking whom he might devour.1932 (date written), Samuel Beckett, chapter 2, in Eoin O’Brien, Edith Fournier, editors, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London; Paris…. From the entry wharfinger
• A most devout man, he devours fruit salad like a herd of hippopotamoi wallowing in the Wallawalla River.1926, Keble Howard, Paradise Island: a Tale of a Shipwrecked Tweeny, page 16. From the entry hippopotamoi
• Saturnus was the Roman version of the Greek god Cronos, a Titan who, fearing his own overthrow, devoured all the children born to him.2024 November 20, Ann Wroe, “The rings of Saturn will disappear in 2025”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Saturnus
• Somin had grown up hearing stories about gumiho—nine-tailed foxes with the ability to live forever as long as they devoured the energy of men.2020, Kat Cho, Vicious Spirits, pages 15–16. From the entry gumiho
• Right now, rich nations devour 28 tonnes of material per person per year – including everything from fish to forests, plastics to metals.2019, Jason Hickel, “Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal”, in Guardian.. From the entry sustainable
• Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.2018, Jessica Spotswood, The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls, unnumbered page. From the entry slow-burn
• 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.2014, Piers Martin, “Aphex Twin: ‘His music is a perfect mix of mystery and adrenaline’”, in The Guardian. From the entry braindance
• Have you devoured the "Twilight" books?2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette. From the entry fanpire
• The grotesque body – low, corpulent, devouring, permeable, disgusting and fecund – may be contrasted with the classical body – smooth, noble, unorificed, bordered.1999, Carolyn Marvin, David W. Ingle, “Fresh blood, public meat”, in Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag…. From the entry unorificed
• The Party Secretary of Qiqiha'er, a hamlet up near the Siberian border, was devoured by a black bear last month it is rumoured.1998, Nicholas Jose, The Custodians, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175. From the entry Qiqiha'er
• Yet in spite of this profound intimacy, this flirtation of private minds, she was still hungry to get nearer to him, to devour him woman-fashion.1982, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 9, in Constance, New York: Viking, page 289. From the entry woman-fashion

Meaning of devour

1. verb To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
2. verb To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
3. verb To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.

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How do you use devour in a sentence?

Devour is used as a verb. For example: “The fire was devouring the building.”

What is a short sentence with devour?

“The past devours the future.”

What does devour mean?

Devour means to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.