Example sentences for: devouring

How can you use “devouring” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cockroaches devouring a tomato symbolizes the destruction of the new world by European conquistadors.

  • 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 (coll.)

  • appetite, appetites mighty, enormous, gargantuan, endless, limitless, unlimited, unfailing, uncontrollable, lusty, voracious, ravenous, (in) satiable, sharp, ferocious, rapacious, devouring, brutish, wolfish, healthy, hearty, greedy, keen, robust, inordinate, substantial, unbridled, avaricious, poor, grotesque, morbid, morose, raucous, finicky, discriminating,, (im) moderate, shrunk, new-found, catholic, postprandial

  • In the current exhibit of Picasso's early work on display in the National Gallery in Washington (which is pegged to Richardson's first volume), the walls wreak havoc with art history: Picasso consuming Symbolism; Picasso eating Impressionism; Picasso devouring Fauvism.

  • 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.


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