Sentence examples for that devoured from inspiring English sources

It was the wars, however, that devoured Castile, even though they were fought beyond its borders.

An east wind brought the locusts that devoured what was left of Egypt's crops.

New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd Street, (212) 307-4100.(Brantley) 'MAMMA MIA!' The jukebox that devoured Broadway (2 20).

They felt embarrassed by the Lewinsky affair and the sordid controversy that devoured Clinton's second term like flesh-eating bacteria.

Perhaps most important, the Pentagon needed to stop depending exclusively on the big-ticket weapons that devoured defense dollars and perpetuated the status quo.

Back then, their biggest threat came from the lions that devoured workers and the diseases that killed them in large numbers as well.

Richter suggests that "Surrealism devoured and digested Dada".

The raging mountain fire that almost devoured Idyllwild, California, was covered continuously for days by every major media outlet, until the story was doused by a newborn baby who'd decided it was time to pop out of the Duchess of Cambridge.

For Mr. Roth, the director of "Hostel" and an expert on pushing the boundaries of horror, the fear of cannibals "is not just having your own flesh devoured, but that you would have a taste for another person's flesh.

"About all I can do is confess that while I myself devoured classics in my teens and 20s – even 30s, come to think of it – I now read contemporary fiction almost exclusively," she said.

"About all I can do is confess that while I myself devoured classics in my teens and 20's -- even 30's, come to think of it -- I now read contemporary fiction almost exclusively...I feel ambivalent about this evolution, but between reviewing, blurbing occasionally, and keeping up with what's out there on general principle I don't often get around to touching base with the literary canon.