“The boy promptly began to hungrily devour the meal.”

“The Scottish National Theatre thus envisioned will not devour all available public theatre funding, starving existing theatres and theatre work as other National institutions often do.”

“That gnawing fear would devour him and he would be reduced to his normal pitiful form of merely existing.”

“In short, sin is a great and powerful god who devours the whole human race, all the learned, holy, powerful, wise, and unlearned men.”

“Sudalai Madan, who devours non-vegetarian food after consuming litres of arrack or toddy has to content himself with the sweet prepared by them.”

“On the one hand the medium devours eccentrics because viewers find their strangeness exciting.”

“But at last it cometh and awaketh and devoureth and engulfeth whatever hath built tabernacles upon it.”

“Desperate to purge the aftertaste, I devoured the accompanying capers, but it didn't work.”

“But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.”

“Huge eddies pulled the waves into massive waterspouts that devoured the flotsam and survivors on the river.”