Sentence examples for a devouring from inspiring English sources

She chooses the latter, but then feels, periodically, this black tear inside, a devouring void.

The owner, a former football coach, has brought a devouring impatience to a sport that teaches a rueful regard for time and chance.

And she went to many Narcotics Anonymous meetings, where she met addicts who brought her into a world "where heroin is like a devouring addict," she said.

In one image the addition of little more than a large red tongue creates a devouring giant, while a scattering of tiny toy figures looks very much like her lunch.

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"I think that it was this fascination with mysteries, and their ability to excite powerful reactions within us, that not only stimulated the people of 2,000 BC to look at the sky for divinatory purposes, or make a racket to - predictably - frighten away a devouring sky monster, but which also drives our compulsion 'to know' today".

The couple are drawn to the more sinister ones: a potbellied devil, a crab devouring a clam.

But earlier footage of a python devouring a grown alligator leaves the impression that these powerful predators are going to go wherever they want, traps or no traps.

A hawk devouring a breakfast of torn pigeon?

An illustration from Art Young's "The Socialist Primer" shows a spider devouring an ant, and includes the following caption: Is this a spider?

Sparks flew; Mr. James's armlong tattoo of an octopus devouring a crab glistened with sweat.