devour

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

The group stage would be a series of blowouts, the sharks would devour the minnows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

The series had a successful reboot as Gen Z viewers continue to devour vintage programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

Postsurgery, she began to devour several novels a week—but only about romance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Just devour them like some kind of beast.

From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds

In India's tech capital Bengaluru, the morning "rush hour" lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

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

With each strike, he devours the essence of liberty and justice, leaving behind a trail of desolation and despair.

From Salon ● May 8, 2024

He devours newspaper reports of the assassination — “I always read my reviews” — and keeps a diary that he he hopes to see published when he escapes to a reborn Confederacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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

Pre-IPO allocations have been devoured by wealthy investors, and post-IPO trading is expected to be truly avaricious.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

"We have tentatively suggested that the long palps might allow the male to keep a safer distance during mating and help him avoid being attacked and devoured by the highly aggressive female."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026

To her amazement, close to 200 people came with more than 180 cakes devoured.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

Yes, it generated billions in cash last year, but that was largely devoured by the all-too-real cash costs that come with paying stock-based compensation to employees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Miles had already devoured half his french fries—the kid could definitely eat when he had food in front of him.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

"Is it fair that our people are devouring each other?" lamented 71-year-old Maria Esther Bernal, who rented shops to Chinese merchants, all of which were looted.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 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

Caligiuri now prefers devouring barbeque to polishing off opposing forwards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

The oldest millennials—the nation’s biggest generation—are entering their mid-40s and devouring a torrent of new supplements, lotions, pills, gels, books and podcasts devoted to menopause relief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

She had left the bowl of sancocho she was devouring on the carpet.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore