Sentence examples for he was devoured from inspiring English sources
His presidency lasted 21 months, until he was devoured by his political enemies.
An artistically driven, voraciously ambitious, devastatingly charming wild child, he was devoured by the fame he craved and died of a drug overdose in 1988 at 27.
Instead of hoping her treatment would cure her breast cancer, he said, he was devoured by worries about obtaining the medicine she needed.
He does note that Flaubert visited Thebes, where he was devoured by mosquitoes while finding the Colossus of Memnon covered with graffiti and bird droppings.
" 'What do I need to do to get a C?' " His father, who'd been a boxer in his youth, and who still settled disputes with his fists, was a handsome, gregarious man who appeared in shows such as "Dragnet" and "My Three Sons" and drive-in movies like "Beginning of the End," in which he was devoured by locusts.
While little was expected of Nalbandian -- who hadn't played a pro grass-court event before this tournament or stepped inside the intimidating boundaries of Center Court before today -- he was devoured by the same successful strategy of attrition that Hewitt has been applying to top players for the past year.
He was devouring his third book of the week: "Right From the Gecko" by Cynthia Baxter, a mystery set in Maui.
By the age of ten, he was devouring the fashion pages in Jours de France, sketching clothes, and critiquing her wardrobe.
As for how he would manage City Hall, he said that he was devouring mayoral biographies to see how others had done it, and that he believed he could strike the right balance: "What I'm going to try to do is try to internalize some of the things that have worked and not worked before.
Meanwhile, in The Hungry Zanni, Fo showed a starving peasant dreaming that he was devouring himself: as we saw Fo unravelling his imagined intestines as if they were strands of spaghetti, we roared at the comedy while understanding the plight of the hungry.
