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Example sentences for: devouring

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The Mexica Aztecs traveled south under the guidance of the god Huitzilopochtli, who advised them to look for an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent.
The candidates for the Republican leadership are conveying a preoccupation not with solving the nation's problems but with protecting themselves individually and devouring each other.
The user is offered a choice with man-eater: “a cannibal: a tiger or other animal that has acquired the habit of eating men: a woman given to chasing, catching and devouring men.”
I'm sitting in a quiet corner somewhere, devouring the latest Michael Crichton, the cover carefully hidden from sight.
The proposed merger between MCI WorldCom and Sprint obviously raises important antitrust questions, since the devouring of the country's third-largest long-distance player by the second-largest might very well not be in the best interests of consumers.