Sentence examples for devoured by it from inspiring English sources

That is hyperbolic because it implies that the party is so riddled with a voracious disease that it is being devoured by it.

"Having created the monster, we are being devoured by it," says Antonio Argandoña at IESE, a business school.In 2011 the country's legion of indignados took over city squares, shouting: "They don't represent us".

When Sealy wound up with Minnesota in 1998, he became Garnett's mentor, teaching him lessons of how to move in the crevices of fame, how to enjoy notoriety without being devoured by it.

Great examples of landscape architecture, places like Fletcher Steele's Naumkeag estate in the Berkshires or Olmsted and Vaux's Prospect Park in Brooklyn, evoke the sensation of walking into a great building and being devoured by it.

The news the other day that the snakehead fish, voracious pond-dominator and alleged traverser of dry land, had turned up in local waters was generally bad, at least for the other fish (and frogs, turtles, and perhaps even fowl) now destined to be devoured by it.

By Nick Paumgarten The news the other day that the snakehead fish, voracious pond-dominator and alleged traverser of dry land, had turned up in local waters was generally bad, at least for the other fish (and frogs, turtles, and perhaps even fowl) now destined to be devoured by it.

It fears being devoured by the monster it feeds.

This week, driving through flood-ravaged McDowell County, past the twisted remains of mobile homes, overturned cars and houses devoured by rampaging creeks, it was hard not to be angry.

In equatorial Africa he describes the flank of a tethered antelope that had been devoured by driver ants: "It's no coincidence that people living within range of driver ants keep their babies on their bodies and let their livestock roam free".

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

The paper had a tiny circulation, and routinely lost money, but it was devoured by insiders in the industries it covered: media, politics, and real estate.