How to use Devouring in Sentences?
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1. But meanwhile you are arousing in me a devouring curiosity as to the nature of the case.
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2. It tasted muddy and disagreeable, but it drowned the fever which was devouring me.
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3. They are so smart and fierce, and look like dragons ready to fight the devouring element.
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4. And yet would suffer your devouring thoughts, To suck the blood of your dead brothers sonne!
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5. In a few minutes the trees and undergrowth were lit up as though a mighty conflagration were devouring them.
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6. But if you had known the devouring furnace that has burned in me day and night you would have pitied me.
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7. His earlier love for her had suddenly burst into a passionate flame that seemed to be devouring his very soul.
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8. Warblers and vireos are among the most helpful birds in an orchard, devouring large quantities of insects.
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9. Then he waded in until he reached the deepest part of the pool, and waited for the advance of the devouring element.
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10. She felt as if swarms of army ants were crawling over her entire body, and were devouring her alive.
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11. In addition to which, he fried ham twice for them when they hinted that they were still hungry after devouring everything before them.
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12. A devouring melancholy preyed upon his heart, and seemed to be drying up the very blood in his veins.
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13. He wandered among old plays like an exile returning with devouring eyes to a dusty ancestral castle.
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14. Okematan occupied himself in stirring the contents of the large kettle, and occasionally devouring a mouthful of pemmican uncooked.
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15. Down swooped the white-winged deliverers, devouring the crickets with incredible voracity until but few were left alive.
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16. The little minnows put on all the snobbish airs of the whales who had grown so large by devouring all the small fish in their business seas.
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17. One has a glass of wine in his hand, and the other is the artist himself, who is laughing heartily at the man devouring the mussels.
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18. I fear my good intentions were tainted with a devouring curiosity, and overlaid by the fascination which goes hand in hand with horror.
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19. And she threw the bread from the basket, and the beautiful birds unbent their curved necks, devouring it voraciously under the water.
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20. The flame ran nimbly up her arm, devouring her thin sleeve, and he had only just time to beat it out with his hands before it reached her hair.
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21. He leaned forward, devouring the hero with his eyes, trying to pierce the bronzed skin, to read the record.
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22. I know what is the matter: they feel dull, they want to work; they are tormented at the idea of devouring their honey instead of making it.
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23. It had a look of suffocated grief; it was ravaged; it asked nothing and gave nothing; it was fixed on its one devouring preoccupation.
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