A decade ago, 37-year-old Jeff Bush was sleeping in a bedroom when the earth opened up and devoured him and part of the house.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-sinkhole-claimed-mans-life-2013-reopens-time-101177864

Advancing flames devoured forests and homes as dozens of wildfires raged across Greece Wednesday, leaving 20 people dead over the past three days.

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And voila, we’ve got a delicious and healthy meal ready to be devoured.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/food-wine/chole-with-baked-bathure-recipe-make-everyones-favourite-treat-healthier-8171561/

Best novel I’ve recently read, and the best work of nonfiction: I’m a few years late on both of these, but I adored by Emily St. John Mandel—a novel about wealth and talent and escape that I found so spellbinding, I devoured it in a weekend.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/the-stand-up-special-thats-actually-funny/673203/?utm_source=feed

But Britt devoured both of the cake pops right in front of them.

Source: https://www.chipchick.com/2023/05/shes-talking-about-how-she-handled-a-situation-in-which-her-kids-were-being-difficult-by-eating-their-cake-pops.html

Growing up in the Rift Valley town of Ngong, Ms. Tayiana devoured books, maps, and old photographs in her grandparents’ rich home archives.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2023/0118/How-a-headstrong-historian-is-rewriting-Kenya-s-colonial-history?icid=rss

Higgins notes: “For years, it seems, he devoured every syllable published about him,” while Marriott states, “Harry reads what’s written about him and knows individual journalists by name.”

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/spare-prince-harry-review-roundup-memoir-book-b2259389.html

In 2013, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals issued an order to Marineland to build separate habitats to protect bear cubs from being mauled and devoured by adult males.

Source: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-charges-marineland-over-care-of-its-black-bears-1.6421289