devour

I still devour new music this way, clocking a daily average of four hours of tunes familiar and novel.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

One court warned that public nuisance would become “a monster that would devour in one gulp the entire law of tort.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

For him and his family, this is a rare chance to devour durians "of good quality, and sometimes at nearly half the price of previous seasons".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

When I see my girlfriend devour books faster than the popcorn she keeps within arm’s reach, I feel guilty — and envious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

“You three and Dumbledore are the only ones around here who know I’m an Animagus,” said Sirius, shrugging, and continuing to devour the chicken leg.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

"He's someone who devours books, who needs to talk about them."

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

That hot, hard rock devours conventional drill bits and makes a hash of the concrete usually poured deep underground around the steel pipes required to line such a well and keep it from collapsing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

In Screen Gab No. 142, the actor behind Alyn of Hull stops by to discuss ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, our editor devours ‘Presumed Innocent’ and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024

In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

“Fire devours books,” he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Now, countless memories rushed back to her as she devoured clips of the fully redesigned version, due to arrive on the Switch 2 later this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"I devoured all of these facts so now at any party, I have at least five Milton Keynes facts."

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

As far back as his time in Atlanta, Snead had devoured books about Warren Buffett—usually on tape as he drove from school to school all over the South.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he met his wife, devoured Einstein’s original papers and investigated parallel universes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Farmers worldwide had hoped China’s 1.4 billion mouths would continue devouring more foreign produce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

It’s only people like Ruth, who thanklessly work to allay that suffering even in the smallest ways, that keep the darkness from devouring us whole.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Pita’s eyes sparkled with delight; she was all but devouring the baby cakes on the platter.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall