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Example sentences for: devour

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Although reviewers grant that this production benefits from some nuanced performances, they still conclude that "The Sound of Music isn't really for grown-ups" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). They predict audiences will continue to devour the show's sentimental story anyway.
While our cars eat up the miles, we chew over ideas, digest information, devour with our eyes, make mincemeat of our enemies, and take what they say with a pinch of salt .
Children were routinely told horrifying tales about gruesome creatures lurking nearby, ready to devour them if they so much as left their beds.
The judge hasn't decided whether Microsoft violated antitrust laws, as the Justice Department contends, but he ordered the halt just to make sure that Microsoft doesn't devour the browser market while the case is in court.
Yes, Night will devour Day, but Macbeth's significant meaning here is: under cover of darkness—in reckless defiance of weird authority—he will have his black agents eliminate the bonded progenitor of Scottish kings, along with his only progeny.