The word "devouring" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to describe something consuming something else in an intense manner. For example: The lion devoured the antelope in a single bite.
"I was scared of it devouring my whole life.
Ironically, I get invited out to dinner more often than before, although these days I pick at my food like a bird instead of devouring it.
While you're much likelier to witness natives devouring roast pork-and-broccoli rabe, here are a few of the best places to sample an authentic cheesesteak.
He lived in the library at Government College in Umuahia, in south-eastern Nigeria, devouring Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats.
It has not asserted any patents yet, but many think it is just circling before devouring its prey.Trolling for businessThere have recently been complaints in the industry about "patent trolls"—patent holders that send letters asking IT companies either to pay royalties or face a long, costly lawsuit.
This was a subject he could expound on for hours, day or night, face to face, on the phone, or while devouring one of the five-alarm Korean stews he had acquired a taste for on his army service.
Yet, as he points out, if we don't stop heedlessly devouring the wild fish from our oceans, one day that might be all the salmon man has left.
Through the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, chronicler of the American frontier, European Russians knew more about American expansion than about their own Far East.Kangxi, the most impressive Qing emperor, sent troops against the "man-devouring demons"In time the Amur was being described as Russia's Mississippi, and the Amur basin made out to be a new California.
Years of economic mismanagement and self-devouring corruption have not only deprived it of authority in the region, they have deepened the economic, religious and ethnic rifts that threaten the unity of the country.
Or China's market-devouring Huawei and Lenovo?
Richard Aboulafia of Teal Group, an aviation consultancy, points out that the only example of an emerging-market producer succeeding is Embraer of Brazil and for 30 years it too was "a cash-devouring horror .Although Boeing huffs and puffs about ensuring that China sticks to WTO rules banning market-distorting subsidies, both it and Airbus are studiously polite about the prospect of a new rival.
