How to Use devour in a Sentence

devour

verb

• The lions devoured their prey.
• He watched intently, devouring the scene before him with his eyes.
• He devoured everything on his plate.
• She devoured every golf magazine she could find.
• Some whales use this method to devour up to around 20 tons of seafood each day.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• Stress-free time to spend with Mom now that dessert is done and ready to be devoured.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
• They’re drawn to kids too — not to spoil them and bring them presents but to devour them alive.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
• All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured.
  — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
• Needless to say, all three of my kids devoured this one and asked for more.
  — Esther Carlstone, Parents, 12 Sep. 2023
• Like the first two in the series, The Heart Principle is steamy and easy to devour.
  — Marie Claire, 2 Oct. 2021
• But instead of devouring the rat right away, the blue heron took its time.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Not every game needs to be long enough to devour your life.
  — PCMAG, 21 May 2024
• All of that adds up to 27 treats any beauty lover will devour on sight.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 13 Sep. 2024
• With few predators, the snakes are free to devour native species unchecked.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
• The best late-season food plot is the one that doesn’t get devoured before the late season comes.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Deflect the credit when things go right, devour the blame when things go wrong.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2019
• The icing on the cake (which Joey would devour alone because Joey doesn't share food)?
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
• Like the Greek god Chronos, a good number of stars devour their children.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 30 Aug. 2021
• Goats, on the other hand, ravenously devour the leaves and don’t mind climbing to get them.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 19 Aug. 2019
• Spend the day seeing the sights and devouring plenty of empanadas along the way.
  — Food Drink Life, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
• The snail, inside the shell, is like a very wide, very wet tongue, and is trying to either push the scroll out of the way or devour it.
  — Brandon Shimoda, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Anything a blog throws into the ether is likely to be shared and devoured by fans.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• And her fans are more than ready to devour a new adventure.
  — Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Know, 1 June 2020
• Here again this theme of a devouring likeness resurfaces, the twin that spells death.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• People devour it the same way the bear gobbled up all that cocaine.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 11 Mar. 2021
• But some meals are meant to be savored instead of devoured.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• The pro-gun lobby in this nation is inviting us to devour the flesh of our sons and of our daughters.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
• Weeds devour the tombs just as our minds eat away at our memories.
  — Pamina Firchow, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2021
• Extra food was consumed by the staff and leftovers devoured by the sled dogs of Tinit, a nearby village of 80.
  — Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2024
• The worm is the larva of a metallic blue-green fly that spends the early part of its life cycle devouring the living flesh of mammals.
  — Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025