Sentence examples for illness devours from inspiring English sources
Her father's new family erases her own past; her mother's illness, or imagined illness, devours it; and what is built in the present, with Ingrid, with Juan, with the unreadable Gómez, is unstable, could pour away like sand at any moment.
Both lungs out and tubed-up to a respirator, he lay unconscious for five weeks, as the rare illness devoured his nervous system.
Despite his illness, he devours my books.
Within these countries broad regions, far-spreading provinces, magnificent kingdoms, cities, towns and settlements, ground down by illness and devoured by dreadful death, were soon stripped of their inhabitants.
Almost every character seems a study in some kind of mental illness, and, as when Alice devours the Eat Me cake, the furniture can grow suddenly tiny around Aura — who looms large in her own mind, though, to her credit, she seems always game and rarely defeated, despite all.
He devours whole libraries.
I had actually previously mentioned that to James, to which he replied: "Apparently yes - but Bilharzia devours red blood cells, meaning the biopassport analysis would be completely useless on anyone suffering, recovering, or having recovered from that illness.
