1. She began buying and devouring newspapers when she was only 12. 她才12岁时，就开始买报纸并如饥似渴地阅读。
2. When Colin held forth under his tree old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept them there. 当科林在他的树下伸出手来的时候，老本贪婪地盯着他，并一直盯着他。
3. It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected. 描绘一只巨大蜘蛛吞食蜂鸟的画面，可能不太符合淑女形象，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪之交这样做的时候，没有人对此提出反对。
4. A natural predator indigenous to India, Neodumetia sangawani, was found useful in controlling the Rhodes grass-scale insect that was devouring forage grass in many parts of the US. 人们发现来自印度本土的食肉动物 Neodumetia sangawani 有助于控制在罗德岛草场大规模泛滥的昆虫，这种昆虫吞食了美国多地的草场。
5. The hungry boy was devouring his dinner. 那饥饿的孩子狼吞虎咽地吃饭。
