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 company has seen the Gen Z audiences devour hits of yesteryear such as “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and “Golden Girls.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

They diligently tune in to earnings calls and company filings, and devour every piece of content featuring Chief Executive Alex Karp.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025

In one episode he told a story about watching former Prime Minister Mark Rutte devour entire bunches of bananas during political negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

With impatient, shaking hands I broke the seal in order to devour the good tidings I had waited to hear.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

He doesn’t run so much as he devours real estate in huge chunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

Homo ecophagus means the man who devours the ecosystem — and that's what we are doing.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023

“Now come off there before the sea or something in it devours your semi-worthless hide.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Some 10,500 people were being evacuated from their homes near the city of Perpignan in southwestern France as firefighters tried to control a blaze that has devoured 1,650 hectares, authorities said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

"Books devoured me, they ate me," she said.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

It was admirable that Wemby played chess and devoured paperbacks, but what was going to happen in crunch time, when an opponent socked him in the gut and tried to shake him?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

It was pocked all over with little funnel-shaped snares, where the ant lions lay buried at the bottom, waiting for some poor insect to stumble into the trap and get devoured.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

She never finished high school, but compensated for her incomplete education by devouring books and absorbing ideas.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 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

Like Nishimatsu, Yamamoto can't yet vote but he is currently devouring a book written by Takaichi and says she reminds him of baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Many had been here since 2011, when civil war began devouring their country.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

The waves rose in growing fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker