Sentence examples for could be devoured from inspiring English sources

That number is enough to inspire awe, drool even, when thinking of the slice that could be devoured by the state's hungry coffers.

Although pretending that you could be devoured by a great white shark at any moment was a hard task to accomplish ― especially when said shark was just a prop rock on set ― Holt said she knew she wanted to be in the thriller immediately after reading the script. .

In 2011 the International Resource Panel, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), warned that by 2050 the human race could be devouring 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current rate of consumption – unless nations can make serious attempts at decoupling.

There is a big fat grasshopper waiting to be devoured.

Those companies will be devoured by the storm.

The world is going to be devoured by fire.

I even admire people so patient and cool-headed that they could honestly advocate restraint while being devoured nightly by six-legged horrors that look like creatures born of some disturbed ten-year-old's nightmare.

But instead, the patch was devoured by crustaceans before it could bloom.

This could involve 'leaning back' in order to avoid being devoured by taking responsibility for other people's problems – which was not always very easy.

Intriguingly, infectivity was least affected in those target rat carcasses kept in the shaded box, but because the flesh was devoured up by maggots, no larvae could be recovered, and the RCI was not confirmed after 4 weeks.

Ottoman rulers, however, could no longer just sit back and watch as their empire was devoured piece by piece.