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

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

Erosion fights are raging on coastlines nationwide as sea-level rise and intense storms devour beaches and prime real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

The standard form letter appeared on my bed after breakfast, warning me that the cleaning harpies would devour me if I stayed past noon.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

"If you don't run from it and you try to face it, it devours you," Ecologio Cabrera, 86, told AFP after fleeing with nothing.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 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

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023

“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

His articles in the Red Star were devoured by tens of millions of readers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The blaze had devoured an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan by Friday morning.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

It arrived at the peak of unscripted television’s popularity — a period when audiences devoured shows like “Survivor” and “American Idol” at their regularly scheduled times on television.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

Loki was furious, seeing much of his dinner about to be devoured, and he struck at the eagle with his spear, hoping to force it to drop its plundered food.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

An NBA player swears it brought him good luck after devouring it the night before a big game.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 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

The beds and food bowls are gone; the floor where they always left messes after devouring the grub I made them is eerily clean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

A contractor in Steamboat Springs, Colo., opened his truck door in June to find a bear cub devouring his lunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Ella ran her fingers over the tiny thumping emblem before unwrapping and devouring the rich chocolate.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton