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Example sentences for: devoured

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Searching for meaning in this discovery, the Times of London concluded in an editorial that "[a]t the very least the wary Brit might understand the feral roots of French cuisine--of the steak tartare seeping blood onto the Limoges, of ortolans devoured in one bone-shattering mouthful.
The good news: We're doing a lot better than Papua New Guinea, where a 23 foot tsunami killed an estimated 3,000 people July 17 and left their corpses to be devoured by crocodiles.
I got a kick out of Another City, Not My Own . I devoured it in the proverbial single sitting.
An uncontrollable fire devoured a whole city of squatters’ shacks in Kowloon; 50,000 refugees were deprived of shelter.
The many-headed Hydra nearly defeated the hero Heracles by growing two new heads for every one that Heracles cut off, and the liver of Prometheus, devoured by a ravenous eagle each night, regenerated every morning.