Sentence examples for like devouring from inspiring English sources

Racing to finish a puzzle in a large room of people is a little like devouring a meal at a gourmet restaurant as quickly as you can.

Eating floating island, mounds of meringue adrift on creme anglaise all covered with a spun sugar cage, was like devouring clouds.

Or worse: I'd let out an uncontrolled groan of discomfort, bringing a flock of my fellow masked patrons swarming toward me like devouring birds, under the assumption that I was part of the show.

There are points at which it becomes intoxicatingly over-rich, like devouring a box of liqueur chocolates all at once; but Petrenko presented it as a sorrowful song of exile, rooted in the incantatory monotone of the Russian Orthodox church.

But recently Kobayashi has expanded his competitive menu to pursuits like devouring 337 chicken wings in a half-hour and 14 original Twinkies in a minute.

Vincenzo Galasso is a professor at Bocconi University in Milan and co-author of "Contro i Giovani" (Against the Young), a popular book with a cover illustration that shows a Cronos-like monster devouring young people.

SurrealItt Photographer Channels His Inner Magritte.

Moving like "wolves devouring their prey," in the words of one contemporary commentator, the Turks supposedly brought chaos to the Byzantine heartland in Asia Minor.

And she went to many Narcotics Anonymous meetings, where she met addicts who brought her into a world "where heroin is like a devouring addict," she said.

My mind is a dark pool where the little annoyances that we all experience will swim around like sharks, devouring any suggestion of levity until they grow too big and overwhelm me.

Like piranhas devouring their prey, Plath's thoughts rush, churn, thresh -- there is sheer demonic energy here, exhausting to observe and suggesting that Plath's primary motive for suicide might have been the extinguishing of this piranha-voice.