The phrase "devour the time" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when you are describing something that uses time quickly or consumes it in a short amount of time. For example, "I had to devour the time before the deadline to finish the project."
As for those microwave bags - like the one you'll devour by the time Kevin Bacon busts his first move - you've probably read about hazards faced by workers in factories where flavoring powders are blasted around.
Even if the bills go nowhere, they present lucrative fundraising opportunities for lawmakers, while devouring the time and attention that elected officials could be using to attend to the public good -- say, solving the jobs crisis, ending homelessness or improving the standard of living for the one in four American children who currently live in poverty.
I never regretted my decision to leave and I never returned to the time- devouring red boxes of government - even when I became Conservative party chairman a couple of years later.
Mozart is fusing his researches into earlier repertoire – unusually for the time, Mozart devoured all he could of the music of Handel and Bach and earlier composers towards the end of his life – with the advances he had made in his own music.
Devouring my favorite magazine of the time, Film Culture, I learned more about their entirely original work, the lurid plot lines, their home-grown movie goddesses, the ludicrous thrift-store costuming -- it was enough to make me run away to New York to actually see one of their opuses.
And with the time once devoured by work, commutes, chores, and errands we now pursue hobbies and interests that nourish our minds, bodies and spirits.
We ended our time at her store with two bags filled with at least two weeks' worth of chocolate that we shamelessly devoured in half the time.
So, by the time McDonagh started devouring Pinter's The Birthday Party and JM Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, he had already absorbed a range of disparate influences that would coalesce into a hybrid dramatic voice, both recognisable and new.
At the time, the book was being devoured throughout the movie world, and producers were beseeching Luttrell for a meeting.
She passed the time devouring, and being enthralled by, classic novels like "Madame Bovary" and "War and Peace".
Sure, Rory drove his parents nuts, sneaking downstairs late at night to gorge on episodes of "Family Guy," and pretending to do his homework when he was really devouring political stories in The Times.
