Examples of “devour” in a Sentence

verb To eat something quickly and hungrily.

• The kids devoured the pizza within minutes of it arriving.
• He was so hungry he devoured the whole sandwich in three bites.
• After the long hike, we devoured our sandwiches by the lake.

verb To destroy or consume something rapidly and completely.

• The wildfire devoured hundreds of acres of forest overnight.
• Flames devoured the old barn in less than an hour.
• The rising tide slowly devoured the sand castle the children had built.

verb To take in eagerly with the mind, especially reading material.

• She devoured every book in the series within a week.
• He devoured the newspaper every morning before heading to work.
• I devoured the whole magazine on the train ride home.