6 example sentences using devour.
Devour used in a sentence
Devour in a sentence as a verb
I encourage you to research what a croissant is and then find and devour one.
Your wariness is warranted, on a sweeping highway curve, I once watched a large truck devour a compact car because it cut too much into the right lane during the turn.
Someone who knows he's the sheeeeet but doesn't want to prove it at a big company that does lame stuff like QA. Someone who can down a can of Coke and a box of Mentos and then go on to devour a four-course meal of web-scale challenges the likes of which no other startup has ever faced.
Personally, I think its wrong that I get to sit at a table and gaily devour while someone else delivers more food to my table and a third person slaves over a stove.
I'm the sort of guy who wears a t-shift in the winter and uses the skimpiest threadbare sheet in the 58F house at nighttime, and people always marvel about my "incredible metabolism" as I devour a whole pizza.
I still remember the days when I was so dissatisfied with my lack of writing skills that I decided to devour the subject with a non-stop investment of thousands of hours of work specifically aimed at improving those skills - and the seemingly fruitless results of what seemed to be mediocre output at the time - only to wind up, in time, with some degree competence in that area, competence that has served me well professionally and otherwise as I now exercise that skill set in various ways.
Devour definitions
destroy completely; "Fire had devoured our home"
enjoy avidly; "She devoured his novels"
eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"