Sentence examples for it was being devoured from inspiring English sources

I took a closer look and I found that it was being devoured by white, stringy maggots.

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

"Durbar" may not qualify as one, but the book's fly-on-the wall details mean it is being devoured by readers from India's social and political elite nonetheless.

A federally financed study released in April showed that the mountain yellow-legged frog has vanished from more than 90percentt of its native range in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada primarily because it is being devoured by the introduced trout.

It's been devoured into little bits that have been eaten by others and strewn across the ocean floor.

One of the central beams, it turned out, was being devoured by termites.

"Doctor Zhivago," serialized in literary journals, was being devoured by millions; even more wondrously, so were "Darkness at Noon" and "Animal Farm" and "1984".

In addition, German artists returned to a nation that was being devoured from outside and within, and some of them felt the need to confront reality with a particular urgency.

"How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered," the ninth-century Norse warlord Ragnar Lodbrok said as he was being devoured, naked, in a pit by a horde of snakes.

At the time, the book was being devoured throughout the movie world, and producers were beseeching Luttrell for a meeting.

"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".