How To Use Devouring In A Sentence

With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan, Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
Even boys - traditionally reluctant readers - were devouring it under the blankets.
Here the devouring jaw is a symbol of corporeal disintegration; it reverses the process of reintegrating the perfected body and soul at the time of the Resurrection.
With the pop-culture machine currently devouring everything even remotely surf-related, it might at first seem odd that Hollywood hasn't started nosing around Newport Beach.

Calling all Ghosts PETE, BOB AND JUPITER sat round the desk in Head - quarters, devouring the sandwiches Jupiter had brought. The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot
He has constructed a pandaemonium in an upper story of his museum, in which he has congregated all the images of horror that his fertile fancy could devise; dwarfs that by machinery grow into giants before the eyes of the spectator; imps of ebony with eyes of flame; monstrous reptiles devouring youth and beauty; lakes of fire, and mountains of ice; in short, wax, paint and springs have done wonders. Domestic Manners of the Americans
Although it is variously described as a devouring beast that is never satisfied (see Proverbs 27:20) and a gloomy abode (see Job 10:21), it was not a place of punishment, but rather the destiny of all human souls. Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
The men saw no problem in hitting the food tables and creatively devouring their pizza in a kind of pseudo-seal eating motion.
Finally, at the end of the day it was a Fairly Odd Parents episode that needed a giant tentacled monster that was devouring the world.
And if it all gets too much you can munch yourself into a stupor by devouring zero-rated rum babas. Budget: VAT rise will add £33 to average shopping basket
Cicero, on the other hand, it seems to me, after the manner of a widespread conflagration, rolls on with all-devouring flames, having within him an ample and abiding store of fire, distributed now at this point now at that, and fed by an unceasing succession. Archive 2010-03-01
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Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****. Making Light: Open thread 136
The Venus flytrap is a must for boys who enjoy watching the insectivorous plant capture its prey - usually a housefly - before devouring it over several days.
I sit on the terrace in the Plaza Mayor, devouring buttery tostadas con mermelada and the local churros - tubular donuts designed to make you feel all warm and continental inside.
Mrs Proudie in truth believed that the archdeacon was an actual emanation from Satan, sent to those parts to devour souls — as she would call it — and that she herself was an emanation of another sort, sent from another source expressly to Barchester, to prevent such devouring, as far as it might possibly be prevented by a mortal agency. A dollop from Trollope | clusterflock
I am taking a keen interest in bird watching and feeding a troop of greedy sparrows who are devouring everything I put out there.
The world's growing population is devouring seafood as quickly as it can be caught and has seriously depleted the world's wild fish stocks. Times, Sunday Times
Devouring fashion has provided a uniquely unimportant and frivolous thing to direct all my worry towards.
The most exotic of all is the rafflesia, a cabbagey survivor of ancient days, which measures up to a metre across and makes its living by devouring insects and small mammals.
I've become a glutton for bodybuilding knowledge, devouring whatever books, magazines and research I can find on training, nutrition and volition.
With the power out, the only light in the subbasements was cast by the spear points of flame, devouring overturned cars and office debris.
When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books. Times, Sunday Times
From the age of 18 until he turned 20 and returned to Dornoch as the resident pro, Ross hung on every word that ever came out of Tom's mouth, devouring his thoughts on greenkeeping and clubmaking and the construction of a proper golf course.
But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought. The Battle of the Fangs
Next morning he finds that the bat is almost dead and is covered with ants which are devouring it. Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali
So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books. The Sun
Months in the planning, the Gin Flat fire behaved beautifully, devouring a thick carpet of needles and big swaths of brush.
Some reduction sauce from his noisy devouring of the asado steak sticks to his hoary beard and glistens like a dewdrop.
The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
I asked frantically as I stared at the giant flames that were devouring her home.
It was only after wasting a year's worth of boarding school education that I made the semiconscious decision to start painting my lungs with powder and devouring my academics.
So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books. The Sun
It creeps in gradually enveloping the earth, devouring the last traces of the struggling dusk.
I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added Making Light: Open thread 136
Nutria, called Myocastor coypus, have added to the destruction by devouring wetlands.
But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms. The Coming Race
Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The swelling population of hedgehogs on the Scottish islands of North and South Uist and Benbecula has been devouring birds' eggs and chicks, leading to a big decline in the population of rare waders - like oystercatchers and redshanks.
Teeth tearing my flesh, breaking my heart, devouring my mind, losing myself!
An eagle, perching on a cactus, was devouring a snake.
Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
Finally, after four days of movement, Buck grows tired of the chase and drags the moose to the ground, finishing him off and devouring his meat hungrily.
She danced her solos with a stage-devouring vigor and alacritous changes of focus that thrilled me, as did Fairchild in his own solos.
Apathy was probably the word she learned in school that day or had read in the latest book she was devouring.
Also, the field should be watched for several days to prevent pigeons, which are remarkably fond of tares, from devouring much of the sown seed.
The hungry boy was devouring his dinner.
It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats.
The world's growing population is devouring seafood as quickly as it can be caught and has seriously depleted the world's wild fish stocks. Times, Sunday Times
When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books. Times, Sunday Times
The opinions frankly expressed as to theology, metaphysics, and many established orthodoxies; its conclusion, glowing in every page, that metaphysics, as Danton said of the Revolution, was devouring its own children, and led to self-annihilation; its proclamation of Comte as the legitimate issue of all previous philosophy and positive philosophy as its ultimate irenicon ” all this, one might think, would have condemned such a book from its birth. George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
Pern. Anne McCaffery. Human riders link minds with benevolent, airplane-sized dragons to fight off the all-devouring Thread. heh.
Established in 1700, deep in the capital's medieval quarter, this is the oldest coffee shop on the island, where women waving fans and children devouring ice-cream sundaes sit beneath elaborate chandeliers.
The words sound square falls, those Weis in the school then and devouringly rounded to come over and started to battle out the Xun in the stone coffin to bury a product.
Then he committed all to the resistless and devouring might of the fire; he groaned aloud and callid on his dead comrade by name. The Iliad of Homer
This wicked young man (relying on Ahadee's protection) whilst the ceremonies were preparing at Xavier, to invest his brother with the regal dignity, had the audacity to murder him there, and the address to be appointed king in his place; and closed his atchievement, by devouring the heart of his unfortunate brother; which last act of unnatural barbarity was the proof required by Ahadee, of unlimited devotion to his commands. Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ah�dee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney. To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade
The Kentish otters herald a remarkable – if slow – renaissance for the sleek, fish-devouring member of the mustelid family, which declined by 95% of its range in western Europe during the 20th century. Otters are back – in every county in England
The caterpillar is taken inside the ant nest where it promptly turns carnivorous and starts devouring its hosts' eggs and young.
The wooden pieces consisted of some side planks and a piece of a frame, while the metal pieces included bronze (copper) nails and pieces of the lead sheathing that would have protected the hull below the waterline from the wood-devouring teredo worm and rot. Interactive Dig Black Sea: Synopsis
Dismissed by some as a gamefish-devouring, muddy-water-dwelling trash species, the alligator gar is nonetheless heralded by a growing number of devotees as a premier sport fish — hard fighting, mean, and (in growing to 8 feet and 300 pounds) just about the biggest thing you're apt to encounter in inland waters. Fun Facts About Alligator Gar
When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books. Times, Sunday Times
After feverishly devouring Sandoval's mussels, everyone at the table passed around the remaining chipotle broth with tomato and cilantro, guzzling it like soup.
But all the while he was religiously devouring the books of the physics masters.
The mud fell out of her fingers and she initially felt terrible seeing her neat fingernails devouring the filth but still, she was resolved.
These grain-devouring pests (usually called quelea) like to roost together in the tall grass after a day in the fields. 4 Questions and Answers
So that's how I spent the afternoon - gently devouring sweet red hearts on a sunny Sunday afternoon, savouring the stickiness - I can think of many worse ways to spend my time.
Nietzsche illustrates the dynamics of the strong valuation with an infamous image of birds of prey devouring defenseless lambs.
She is driven by a devouring ambition/passion.
Suppose," said the Lion -- "I only say suppose -- both of you ever had a chance of eating me, of -- ahem! in short, devouring your old friend Lal, would you do it?" asked the Lion, with an odd tremble in his voice. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy
A plant or vegetable consumed to ashes to a contemplative and school-philosopher seems utterly destroyed, and the form to have taken his leave for ever; but to a sensible artist the forms are not perished, but withdrawn into their incombustible part, where they lie secure from the action of that devouring element. Religio Medici
So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books. The Sun
That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him.
She is driven by a devouring ambition/passion.
But by now biologists have observed them attacking adult saddlebacks (a native songbird whose numbers are dwindling) and devouring eggs of the little shearwater (a native petrel).
They feared that a conflagration would quickly follow, devouring cities and killing millions.
The world's growing population is devouring seafood as quickly as it can be caught and has seriously depleted the world's wild fish stocks. Times, Sunday Times
And behold what I would have applied to the tongue of the evil-speaker, had I undertaken to give you a just and natural idea of all the enormity of this vice: I would have said that the tongue of the slanderer is a devouring fire which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain, equally as on the chaff; on the profane, as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth, and fixes itself on things the most hidden; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant; acts with more violence and danger than ever in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it can not consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys. Of a Malignant Tongue
In an outbreak, well over 100,000 of the flightless crickets roam across the land, devouring crops, grasses, and ornamentals as they go.
When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books. Times, Sunday Times
So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books. The Sun
That self-moving, selfcreating nation necessitated an Irish centre of policy, and I planned a premature impossible peace between those two devouring heads because I was sedentary and thoughtful; but Maud Gonne was not sedentary, and I noticed that before some great event she did not think but became exceedingly superstitious. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
Roger Williams noted that wars among Indians were “farre lesse bloudy and devouring than the cruell Warres of Europe.” Between War and Peace
Nights of Villjamur is an occasionally hobbledehoy, sometimes rich and atmospheric Fenrir-Devouring-The-Sun Dying Earth fantasy. Archive 2010-01-01
It is an abstraction of the process of fire devouring the turf and many colours are seen when looking up at the glass.
Yet I entertained such an abhorrence of the savage wretches that I have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that I continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when I say my own circle, I mean by it my three plantations - viz. my castle, my country seat (which I called my bower), and my enclosure in the woods: nor did I look after this for any other use than an enclosure for my goats; for the aversion which nature gave me to these hellish wretches was such, that I was as fearful of seeing them as of seeing the devil himself. Robinson Crusoe
Our culture seems amazingly adept at devouring what might harm or upset it.
When Nathan spoke, Isabelle looked up from the sweet, luscious dessert she was devouring and found his unfathomable gray eyes studying her with interest.
We have been devouring cakes baked by young ladies and old mamas.
The opinions frankly expressed as to theology, metaphysics, and many established orthodoxies; its conclusion, glowing in every page, that metaphysics, as Danton said of the Revolution, was devouring its own children, and led to self-annihilation; its proclamation of Comte as the legitimate issue of all previous philosophy and positive philosophy as its ultimate _irenicon_ -- all this, one might think, would have condemned such a book from its birth. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
Few know of the horror lurking behind closed doors: flesh-eating bugs hungrily devouring decaying flesh straight from carcasses.
Where sons of wealthy ranching families tended to be hard-drinking, steak-devouring, woman-chasing "bloods" completely alienated from things of the intellect and spirit, Francisco didn't drink, abstained from meat and believed in arcane mysticism. Glorious innocent: the tragedy and triumph of Francisco Madero (1873–1913)
She was devouring it, feverishly flipping pages and then writing things in the margins with a biro or highlighting sentences or whole paragraphs with a yellow highlighter pen.
Meanwhile, deer are eating all the trees, reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.
What becomes of these ardent young spirits, the inner history of journalism in any great city might pathetically show; but the outside world knows them only in the fine frenzy of interviewing, or of recording the midnight ravages of what they call the devouring element, or of working up horrible murders or tragical accidents, or of tracking criminals who have baffled all the detectives. A Modern Instance
The image of Deaths wide-open mouth evokes the devouring void, the very nothingness that comes with the cessation of consciousness.
The world's growing population is devouring seafood as quickly as it can be caught and has seriously depleted the world's wild fish stocks. Times, Sunday Times
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide.
collection of perceptions" which makes up our consciousness may be an orderly phantasmagoria generated by the Ego, unfolding its successive scenes on the background of the abyss of nothingness; as a firework, which is but cunningly arranged combustibles, grows from a spark into a coruscation, and from a coruscation into figures, and words, and cascades of devouring fire, and then vanishes into the darkness of the night. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
Sometimes it lays its eggs in the nest of a smaller bird after first devouring the eggs of this bird; it lays by preference in the nest of the ringdove, after first devouring the eggs of the pigeon. The History of Animals
Two large cancers were devouring the right side of her face. Times, Sunday Times
A regular right-down bad 'un, he roams the countryside, raping, killing, devouring, until he comes to Birmingham. Archive 2005-09-04
When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books. Times, Sunday Times
That these tasty morsels come wrapped in serviceable crime plots involving tough guys, gutsy gals, and snappy patter makes the pleasure of devouring them all the sweeter. The Sign of The Book: Summary and book reviews of The Sign of The Book by John Dunning.
The la-di-da world of haute cuisine becomes rapidly less genteel during truffle season, a period marked by the hysterical hunting, trading, smuggling and devouring of this elusive subterranean fungal delicacy.
Amanda read the pamphlet with great interest, devouring every word and photograph.
They are solid, massy blocks of mirror-finished aluminum, plated with a light-devouring black chrome. John and Joe Dumbacher exhibit minimal sculptures in 'Cut,' part of BackroomNY
It's worth asking then if she believes that American culture must recognize those roots to keep its fundamental identity and shared cultural and human heritage safe from what the pope would describe as a devouring consumer society, secularism and religious pluralism. Hillary, Benedict and the Rootedness of Christianity
The biggest swarm of locusts in a decade is currently devouring crops in West Africa.
Macmillan is a martyr to his gallstones and lumbago, and whenever possible he prefers to spend the morning in bed, devouring classic works of 18 th-century political history.
fierce devouring affection
But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought. 2 Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
As we settled down to supper, devouring the food hungrily, the front door slammed open.
Who doesn’t like coming home from work and getting online with your friends and teaming up to slay some helpless humans with your brain devouring zombies. Flixnjoystix.com! » FixnJoystix Presents: LAN Of The Dead!The Jewsh Mourns The Death of Face-To-Face Multiplayer Gaming!
He makes his delayed entry in a gleaming linen suit, but there's no mistaking the almost slaveringly devouring ego. Times, Sunday Times
“I sincerely trust,” said Hilary, “that he has not what they call devouring passions.” Flowering Wilderness
Instead, his mouth curved into a smile, resembling a wolf just before devouring his prey.
Devouring Plague helps ease up a lot of the damage the warrior is putting out.
The pair told how not only was the bigger, stronger grey squirrel devouring food sources the red, and its offspring, needed to survive, it was also carrying the Parapox virus which was fatal to reds.
Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some carking care or devouring sorrow. The Minions of Midas
When the first cold breath of winter arrived, white bass that spent most of the year in the inland sea that is 180,000-acre Toledo Bend, roaming the open water in large schools, chasing, attacking and devouring threadfin shad, began moving up the lake. Chron.com Chronicle
But after devouring Morton 6-0 on the second day of the New Year, Ayr have begun 2001 with a flourish.
The mare at once sprang into the devouring gallop of a horse giving it her all.
Any free time he did have, he spent in the extensive library, hungrily devouring book after book.
Rupert, devouring his sandwich with enjoyment, looked at her.
So we trooped back to the farm where the entire extended family had plonked themselves in the kitchen and were devouring all the leftovers.
The crocodile, owing to the structure of its larynx, of the hyoidal bone, and of the folds of its tongue, can seize, though not swallow, its prey under water; thus when a man disappears, the animal is usually perceived some hours after devouring its prey on a neighbouring beach. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
She also has a mesmeric smile, devouring eyes, a cloud of fair hair and ‘a bosom that rose and fell in a kind of sigh’.
Reneeth opens up one of the coolers, pulls out some packaged sandwiches, and sets them down in a pile at a table before devouring one herself - in a dignified, ladylike fashion, of course.
While devouring some delicious crepes and fresh made guac at Queen Street Grocery in Charleston, we were struck with the amount of local small businesses we were patronizing … A list of our favorites … Going Local… down to the Carolinas… at
It is probable, however, that the amphisbaena takes up its abode in the nest for the convenience of devouring the inhabitants, whenever unable to procure other food. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
His literate sense of the handgun equates to a read you will find yourself devouring as you would a fine steak at a world-class eatery.
The hungry boy was devouring his dinner.
The new fighter plane is devouring public funds.
That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him.
We welcomed the range of foreign foods on offer, devouring pizza, curry and Thai greedily.
That instinct which is said to restrain other animals from killing and devouring their own species we need not attribute to him.
I'm now going to head downstairs and re-cover the sofa, wash up the pots and make a drink before retiring to my room to continue devouring this book.
One is the very fierce passage in The Origin of Species where he talks about ‘the face of nature, bright with gladness’ and yet if you look beneath, you will see things ravening, devouring, consuming.
_ A cobbler, despite the ancient saw, _ne sutor ultra crepidam_, intently devouring the "folio of four pages. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
Well .... * grin* I'm devouring (honestly, devouring is the right word) Archangel's Kiss. Friday Book Club
That is, when she has granola, banana and juice in the morning, as well as a sandwich and yogurt for lunch, she stops devouring brownies after dinner.
Yet we had watched his smooth brow furrow and corrugate as under some carking care or devouring sorrow. The Minions of Midas
But unfortunately, the "biting and devouring" is there in the Church even today as an expression of a poorly understood freedom. Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications - the Letter Itself
Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many are the deaths. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Generally they prey one upon another as so many ravenous birds, brute beasts, devouring fishes, no medium, [351] omnes hic aut captantur aut captant; aut cadavera quae lacerantur, aut corvi qui lacerant, either deceive or be deceived; tear others or be torn in pieces themselves; like so many buckets in a well, as one riseth another falleth, one's empty, another's full; his ruin is a ladder to the third; such are our ordinary proceedings. Anatomy of Melancholy
Abdullah, verily the goods of this world stand not in stead of those of the world to come, and we are no fraudful folk, but all of us know the lawful from the unlawful and fear Almighty Allah and abstain from devouring the substance of the orphan. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She is a very admirable specimen of her kind ” the mamestra brassicae species of caterpillar, and having with beautiful aplomb outmanoeuvred and flouted the rapacious cousinry, Clara is seen at the last, under the protection of Holy Church, still quietly devouring her Miranda leaf ” such is the irony of nature, and the merit of a perfect digestive apparatus. Robert Browning

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