Sentence examples for the devouring from inspiring English sources

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the devouring

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To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.

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The Roma call it Porajmos – the devouring.

And "Strangers" captures the devouring need buried within a casual romantic encounter.

Pogroms came and went across Europe until the Holocaust, which Gypsies call Porramous, the devouring.

Back in Los Angeles, where Ms. Subramaniam and Ms. Lapidus were filming the "devouring" portion of their short, Ms. Subramaniam directed, and Ms. Lapidus jabbed a silver fork into the crumbling Pavlova, raking thin furrows with the tines.

The model Veronica Webb discusses cultural notions of women's proper proportions (she was a model with a backside in the "pre-J. Lo era") and how she feels like an "object of prey" under the devouring male gaze.

Without effacing the memory of Anthony Hopkins in David Hare and Howard Brenton's Pravda, Ralph Fiennes also proved it was perfectly appropriate to reinterpret the devouring press-baron Lambert Le Roux: where Hopkins was roaming jungle lion, Fiennes was a more voracious, paper-eating panther.

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But the time is long gone when America alone could manage the conflict devouring the Middle East.

The larvae devour the stink bug from the inside.

The next night, Scherzer came out after seven and the Red Sox devoured the Tigers' relievers.

The crowd devoured the four-hour marathon as if Handel were the new Puccini.

Those ladies would have devoured him like the Maenads devouring Dionysus.

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