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单词 consume
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But the flames were thick and oily and burning fast, consuming the ball of bark as fast as if it were gasoline. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
I wanted my anger to consume the building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
Her consuming love is like flowers blossoming over my fears. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
Bo coming back into my world, if only in the tiniest of ways, turns my brain into a vacuum, where nothing else can exist, because I’m so consumed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
By two o’clock in the afternoon the fire had consumed the old drawing rooms that had been used since colonial times, and only a handful of men were left around the President. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
“But only if it consumes peculiars. It can eat as many normals as it likes and it will never turn into a wight. Therefore, we must have something normals lack.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
Constructed at enormous cost, this porous architectural folly consumed twenty thousand trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
“It keeps him from consuming all his air,” Hazel said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
There was nothing to do, though, when Lane extended his Martini glass to her but to accept the olive and consume it with apparent relish. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z
But after 9/11, the olive tree wars became all- consuming for me. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
He knew she was religious, and he was consumed by the fear that his secret idea would go against her beliefs. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mariam watched as the girl’s days became consumed with cycles of feeding, rocking, bouncing, walking. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
It came untethered and crashed around with reckless abandon—burning, shattering, consuming. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
The ratio of zero to anything—zero divided by a number—is always zero; the other number is completely consumed by the zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
That might take a bit of time; even the bravest would be dismayed after watching a thousand or so of his fellows consumed by wildfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
She doesn’t worry about going public with it; feelings don’t consume her the way his do. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
I consume this, noting every intersection and side street, but it’s remedial stuff. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
In the old days, when we were more consumed by social class, we were also more honest about it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
It churned and kept its fearsome shape, fed by what it consumed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
She’d ended up saying nothing, and Pearl had consumed a bowl of cereal in silence and returned to bed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
She told me how she'd swallowed it all, even the memory of it, like the tiniest bitter pill, and about all the boys she consumed after it just to keep it buried down there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
The racial problems that consumed Guitar were the most boring of all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
“How long ago did she consume the fruit?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Even in his ailing state White assisted Grove with the book, as if he were consumed by an unsolved case, until the manuscript was completed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Even consuming just a little could cause vivid hallucinations and disorientation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Only Inej wanted to chat with anyone, and that was because she seemed to have developed a consuming interest in all things nautical. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Plutarch acknowledged her physical and mental condition, depleted by illness, consumed by sadness, and frantic for the safety of her children, if not for herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z
I come awake slowly with my body on fire, consumed in flames. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
People have to consume it in new ways, in new kinds of processed food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
It was inappropriate, in my opinion, to consume the candy Mr. Pirzada gave me in a casual manner. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
They’d come a day apart, she seemed familiar, he had a consuming urge to become a Runner despite learning so many terrible things. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
If his blindness was the cause of the loss, his frustration and guilt must have been consuming. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
I stared at him, and a terrible expression consumed J.T.’s face. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z
Most stood by watching the yellow-orange flames leaping from roof to roof and listening to the horrible crackle pop of dry pine being consumed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
Nonetheless, as numerous historians have shown, the development of a new racial order became the consuming passion for most white Southerners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
He put this burden down in front of his mother and told her to eat and drink, as this was about as much food and water as she was due by nature to consume. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z
The predators — insects that kill and consume other insects — are of many kinds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
It occurred to him that he had yet to eat his peach and that he should consume it before any more disasters occurred. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z
In Indiana, Elizebeth confessed that she was “consumed by thoughts of dear, intimate things that burn one up with a fire of longing and ache of wanting you.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
When I tell him, he will be consumed with regret like I am. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
Which means I'm not consuming it as fast as I thought. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
And at a primal level it suggested the unconscious fear of being swallowed up by a larger creature, the terror of being completely consumed, eaten alive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
All else is banished because it would consume energies unnecessarily. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
I can have no priest who has golden idols before him, God answered, and the flames roared and consumed everything. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
But one night I rose from my bed, suddenly consumed with fear that Bunny would find it while snooping around my room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
My eyes open wide as they consume me, the wonder of it so enthralling that I barely register the pain until it’s too late. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Arya saw a tree consumed, the flames creeping across its branches until it stood against the night in robes of living orange. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
Michelangelo stared at the flames consuming the dry wood. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
And Hamilton Knapp did not know that Arnold, not Ginger, was about to consume them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z
He felt the tingling in his hands, the lightness in his head, the heaviness of his heart, and it consumed him, filled him to the brim with a bitterness and voracity that burned his throat. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
The wild bacteria consume the cell culture, eat it up, and make a variety of different smells in the air while they’re prowing, whereas viruses kill cells^ without releasing an odor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
The next few days of Ophie’s life were entirely consumed by work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z
“Are they still baying at the moon? I hear reports from the kitchen that those pupils of yours are consuming an alarming amount of ketchup. Perhaps you can explain.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
We said farewell in the foyer near his chambers as the dusky shadows consumed the day’s light. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
All he could taste was the pervasive and consuming despair, like soot on his tongue. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
It wasn’t the tactical possibilities that made him consume time, but the long, drawn-out endgame position, rife with complications. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She wanted to consume every human, god, and demigod that dared to walk across her surface. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
He stopped, closed his eyes for a second, fought off the darkness that tried to consume him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
For months, Annabeth had been tormenting herself, her every waking moment consumed with the search for Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
Even brave acts could not allay the fear: the consuming fear that ruled him whenever he had to face Bull Meecham boy to man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’s consumed with how we focus, what causes us to lose focus, get distracted. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
In 2008, people consumed three times the amount of information they did in 1960, according to researchers at the University of California at San Diego. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
In the Bronx, a fire consumed a straight-A student and her baby brother, asleep in his crib. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I don’t leave it out long enough. Some days the insects consume all the milk before I collect the pans. Thirsty critters.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
As he turned into Drexel Boulevard and headed toward Dalton’s, he thought of how restless he had been, how he was consumed always with a body hunger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
The protein bar or Pop-Tart is designed to be consumed in the car on the way to school or to work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
Peasants were obliged to produce more than they consumed so that they could build up reserves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
In advancing the work so quickly and on such a grand scale, Burnham’s department had consumed far more money than anyone had anticipated. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
And the buildings burn but are not consumed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
I was consumed instead by a blinding rage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I swear, by Jesus’ name, there was more meat than the whole kingdom could consume. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z
The effort to define, or merely understand, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer consumed the idle hours of many who knew or worked with them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Nobody questioned the offering, and the food was consumed greedily and quickly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
The building’s floor alone had consumed five traincar loads of nails. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Just as if I’d rammed him with a car, I was consumed by the knowledge that a stranger was lying in a hospital bed because of me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
Judith, Isaac, and I together consumed a total of 4,510 calories at our lunch, which is about two-thirds of what the three of us should eat in a day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
He strode off across the shop and Ranofer escaped to the scroll room, consumed with resentment and bitterly resolved that he was through with trying to be of value in the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z
She saw his heart burning through his chest, and in an instant he was gone, consumed like a moth by a candle, turned to ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
This is his theory: the owl we held as a temporary captive memorized our floor plan so it could find its way back through a window and consume her soul. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
I sold less than before because having to be so careful consumed so much time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
After the murders I was consumed by sadness for my brilliant and lovable twin, who had never been considered good enough, and would never be able to confront our parents as an adult. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
For instance: saying nothing about Flora's potential stoutness as Flora consumed the second helping of macaroni and cheese. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z
To right and left, jostling into frame, are disorderly ranks of trees, which immediately vanish into consuming darkness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
But despite this apparent munificence, the meat he’d been killing was very lean, and he was consuming fewer calories than he was burning. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
With the other things that had consumed Matty’s thoughts recently, he had almost forgotten about Trade Mart. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z
“Conscientious objection on an enormous scale. Anything not to consume. Back to nature.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The attack: of the gull had consumed precious time, and when she reached the steps that would be the final climb, dusk had come. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
We had dinner together that night, consuming three bottles of wine, and then Farmer and I trudged back to our hotel in the biting cold, his red scarf covering his nose, his glasses fogging up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
The old man was tall and his chest was wide; at one time he had been heavier, but old age was consuming everything but the bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Did you consume any alcohol at the party?” she asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
All it wanted was one thing: to consume her entirely. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
The school was far across town and the walking distance alone consumed my breakfast of mush and lard gravy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
She will either reach the water, or the flames will consume her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
I'm so consumed by the deliberate pencil marks that I don't notice my phone is ringing until Hiroshi taps me on the shoulder and makes me jump. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
But it is in soft drinks that we consume most of our fifty-eight pounds of high-fructose corn syrup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
The jungle was no longer something he could just distance himself from—he was within it, entirely consumed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
He knew what game this was, the same game that had consumed Tony and put a bullet or two in him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
In a way it was like a nightmare, in which you might continue to consume huge masses of putty without being able to stop. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z
Leo didn’t want to bring him down, but he could still hear Gaea’s voice: He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all Jire, the silence that consumes all speech. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
And for the first time, I distance myself from the personal tragedy that has consumed me since they announced the Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
It was very good, and the child smiled happily after the last morsel had been consumed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z
With flames consuming the compound at an alarming rate, the captain made a judgment call. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z
And why was one sugar consumed first, and only then the second, like a two-course bistro lunch? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The blurred tree towering overhead consumes the sun; the ground is dead; I gasp for rain and wind. scene: The Queen BesideHrothulf’s Bed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
Ashima has been consuming this concoction throughout her pregnancy, a humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalks and on railway platforms throughout India, spilling from newspaper cones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
He pays for her operation, and for the first few months Theo is consumed with taking care of her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
She was so consumed that, driving on the highway, too fast, she rounded a curve and the Pinto swerved; she lost control, and then, at the last second, recovered. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Guilt consumes me, that I should live while all are lost That I could not divert the fated course. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
And then it consumed him; he felt his mind taken by the mist, felt memories flood into his thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
For a moment he froze, consumed with despair. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
When he had finished the first hot dog, Ignatius prepared and consumed another, contemplating other kindnesses that might postpone his having to go to work again. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Absently and when a subject had so consumed and excited him, he would write with the cigarette and smoke the chalk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
August is not the only one consumed by thoughts of Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z
The day was consumed in bringing water to the afflicted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Before half of it was consumed, Kit’s patience ran out. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z
In advanced stages of famine, as the body begins to consume itself, the victim suffers muscle pain, heart disturbances, loss of hair, dizziness, shortness of breath, extreme sensitivity to cold, physical and mental exhaustion. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
“People need work and the mines need workers. It sounds like a good match, but most do not realize the mines will consume them.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was his life’s work and consuming passion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
On his own now, Frear ran for his life, going up any street that was not consumed in flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
Bobby also ate as much soft ice cream—another first at the fair—as he could consume. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The flesh of General Eisenhower consumed by generations of predators will speak aloud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
All food was consumed very near to where it was grown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Kira looked over quickly, but the beetle had been consumed now. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Six beads from a child’s necklace, five building blocks, a darning egg, a bone, a small harmonica, and a partly consumed lollipop. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z
But if your hearts are capable of shame, leave my great hall, and take your dinner elsewhere, consume your own stores. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
He consumes enormous portions, and “no” is not part of his vocabulary, whether the food is good or bad. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
In the early 1700s, the average person in England consumed an estimated four pounds of sugar a year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Nali pointed to the stars above and called certain clusters by their Navajo names, while Nathan’s fire consumed the last bits of wood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
Night fell faster than he expected, sudden and consuming. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
How much yogurt had she consumed as a child? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
He glanced toward the kitchen, which the flames were consuming with glee, and headed across the living room toward Angel’s bedroom. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
This constant Victorian minuet of false grace consumed time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
“He’s the star,” Sue Ellen announced and Ben winced with a small pain and an exquisite, consuming pleasure. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
In fact, the ability for individuals to create and broadcast media explains a key difference between the nature and amount of information people consume today than in past eras. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
And now seeing the handwriting of the two in the consuming flames I burned my hand and slipped to my knees, staring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
But he had no idea the immense volume of alcohol I consumed on a daily basis. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She was terrified that she might have cancer, and consumed with the idea that researchers had done —and were perhaps still doing—horrible things to her mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
This place felt similar, as if the earth were trying to wake up and consume jeverything—as if the mountains on either side wanted to crush them and the entire glacier to pieces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
"Eventually the buzzing begins. It sounds like a thousand flies are breeding in your ear canals. It drives the victim insane—insane and consumed with an unquenchable rage. Some can resist it, but not many." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
She knew that poverty could be a different kind of monster, always lurking and waiting to consume. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
“More addictive than most drugs. Sampling a lotus blossom awakens a craving that will never be silenced. Many have wasted their lives pursuing and consuming the petals of those bewitching flowers.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
On July 14, he began consuming the pealike seedpods of the plant as well, probably because the roots were becoming too tough to eat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The second slowest cup of coffee ever consumed by man was finally empty as every eye in the Meecham living room remained fastened on the figure of Colonel Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The noise of four hundred mouths moving, consuming, pulls me away from her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z
It burned, consuming the body of Balder and the body of Nanna, and his horse, and his possessions. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z
But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
And consumed by curiosity, by a fleeting hope, Thomas joined her, collapsing to the ground to get a better look. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
“I want to go home,” said Bod, when the last of the bits in the song had been consumed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z
“Your home is so lovely,” said Grace’s mother, who read Architectural Digest the way—well, Grace had never met anyone who consumed anything the way her mom read Architectural Digest. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
Guilt and feelings of inadequacy could consume him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
I’d also recently sworn off dating altogether, too consumed with work to put any effort into it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
You’ve played some trick on the dividing of my cells so my body can never be free of the small parts of Africa it consumed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He watched the flames consume it, pale eyes shining with reflected light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
It had gripped him, then consumed him like a living thing, and it wasn’t the first time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
It consumed much of the time and energy of my entire family. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Con, who normally would have been sensitive to the strained silence that gripped Kaede and Taisin, was consumed by his own anxieties. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
He pulls the book from the shelf it pulls back, ALBUS/RON is consumed by the bookcase. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z
I make to-do lists and check them off, trying to keep myself busy, swallowing my grief and pain so my parents don’t get consumed by theirs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
The sense of exhilaration that usually seemed to possess Edward as he ran was completely absent, replaced by a fury that consumed him and drove him still faster. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z
Of far greater concern at that time, of course, was my own future, for on that night all that consumed my thoughts was the fear of the next day’s injections! Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z
France had freed slaves but then consumed itself in violence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Comparing texts word by word turned out to be quite the consuming task. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
The three acres consumed all our resources and time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
The fear that over the years would grow to consume her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly; someone was bound to forget something. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
It was claimed that he consumed three sixpacks of R.C. daily, flavored with two packs of Lucky Strikes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
I preferred it to hamburgers or hot dogs, the only alternative I could afford in the coffee shops on Massachusetts Avenue, and, besides, at the time I had yet to consume any beef. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Rather than consuming both sugars equally, the E. coli cells had selectively consumed glucose first. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
I’ll bet that in the parts of the Holy Land that I visited a million bottles of soft drinks were consumed—and ten million cigarettes must have been smoked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
When I woke, the city of New York was consumed with burning hellfire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
She visualized the room behind those gabled windows and suddenly realized that the playroom consumed only half the space the attic should fill. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
In the supermarket they let Gogol fill the cart with items that he and Sonia, but not they, consume: individually wrapped slices of cheese, mayonnaise, tuna fish, hot dogs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
This is the question that consumes me over the next three days as we wait to be released from our prison of safety. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
All of the homes had been burned, their roofs of thatch and walls of reeds consumed by the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
The pain is all consuming, so pervasive it feels as if I’ve never been without it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
With almost rabid delight, the children consumed them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
If not for the rain, the fires might have consumed all of Meereen by now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Upon close questioning, the earl had confessed that most of his property had recently been consumed by fire. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Insulin injections encouraged Woolf to gain weight, and to manage his diabetes he needed to consume regular, high- protein, low-carbohydrate meals—meats were recommended—which also added pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Would you like to consume atoms?” he says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Marshmallows are roasted, wine is consumed in heroic quantities, stories are shared. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
The next morning she calls, waking him; at ten on a Sunday he is still in bed, his head aching from the Scotch and sodas he’d consumed throughout the evening. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
“Because I didn’t expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Then Wang Lung forgot his son, for the harvests, except what the locusts had consumed, were fair enough and by now he had gained once more what he had spent on the woman Lotus. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z
You will recover to spend the next seventeen years consumed in a battle with him—a battle you will lose. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z
The lower half of his face liquefied: the fire consumed plastic, then skin, then muscle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
But Mother wanted to consume me like food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
If successfully erected, George B. Post’s Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be the largest building ever constructed and consume enough steel to build two Brooklyn Bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
At the hospital the doctors were equally alarmed until a few tests confirmed that I had consumed so many icy pops that the food coloring was going straight through. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
For a long while, we did not speak, but were all consumed in reverie. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Soon fossils filled nearly the whole of his house in Brighton and consumed much of his income. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
When he was near, she couldn’t help but be consumed with the most scandalous thoughts, of his lean, bare body entangled with hers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
His sight begins to shift continuously from shadow to light, darkness replaced by expansive white only to be consumed by darkness again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z
“They say black absorbs all color. It blots and consumes it and gives us nothing back. That’s wrong, don’t you think?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Anger builds inside me, replacing my blood with bitter water and filling me, consuming me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
I could see it was consuming the energy of the entire city. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Meanwhile Robert, addressing Mrs. Pontellier, continued to tell of his one time hopeless passion for Madame Ratignolle; of sleepless nights, of consuming flames till the very sea sizzled when he took his daily plunge. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
Suddenly realizing what he was doing, Rishi scrambled to help her, apparently consumed by a vortex of regret. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
Their wood had been consumed, and their stones had crashed down, had tumbled against one another until they locked at last in low and graceful curves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You know you don’t need to apologize, baby,” she said, and another yawn consumed her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
When he ate an apple, he consumed skin, core and seeds, which he alleged were the most healthful and most delectable portions of the fruit. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
How much corn did Judith, Isaac, and I consume in our McDonald’s meal? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
“To accelerate, simply flap your arms faster. However, be advised: The faster you fly, the more energy your pterodactyl will consume. Your winged avatar will have a ‘life battery’ icon glowing on its back. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z
My appetite vanished and my digestive system, which required abundant oxygen to metabolize food, failed to make use of much of what I forced myself to eat; instead my body began consuming itself for sustenance. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
I wonder what Hamlet, the philosopher and man of reason, would have made of the nuns’ simple faith that they consume Christ’s true body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
“Well,” he said, smiling—and it seemed impossible that his dentures could remain so flashing white with all the coffee and cigarettes he consumed. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z
Then fear that he would not be able to talk about this consuming fever made him panicky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
Without money or connections, moderate tasks consumed entire days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
But we have been so consumed with saving Peeta, so tortured by having him in the Capitol’s hands, that the elation at having him back blinded us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
All my moments which were not consumed with efforts to escape the cold were absorbed with morbid Poe-like fancies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
In nearly 40 percent of families, the parents consume eleven hours of screen media a day, which does not include work time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
Even at that point, in 1957, the Food and Drug Administration could not instantly rescind the tolerance which allowed residues of a known carcinogen to contaminate food consumed by the public. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
And Cain, to her delight, wound up going purple in the face after consuming belladonna. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
As quickly as it’d come, it slithered into the jungle’s depths, consumed in the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
The nature of light was a problem that had consumed scientists for centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
It lit up the night and warmed Frank to the bone, but he could feel his life slipping away, as if he were being consumed rather than the wood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
Plans racing in her head, she squatted to watch the wolves eat, measuring, as time passed, the enormous amounts they were consuming—pounds at each bite. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
My father’s anxious office-seeking consumed our family’s fortunes, the remains of my mother’s dowry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The flames amid the rubble consumed the remaining fragments of the house and gusted into the sky, a nimbus of fire. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Here, I will tilt my head back, let it pour into my mouth, and consume it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z
My love,, inflame me no more, lest you consume all my wit and betray my will Let men not censure my name that I call your love, that for which I rise and fall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
The hole inside me, the one they left, it’ll just get bigger and bigger until it consumes me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
When CroMS are the only living creatures remaining on the planet, they consume each other. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
The burn consumed the entire left side of my face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z
Might it be, I wondered, that the omega-3 fatty acids and the three-vegetables-per-meal I consumed were responsible for retarding my sexual maturity? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
I think back to the flames that consumed my house on the night of the raid. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The faucet runs and runs until the cell is exhausted, consumed, and destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The open trap was only a few feet ahead, but the fire was spreading fast, consuming the old wood and dry straw faster than she would have believed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The four eldest sons of Davos Seaworth had perished in the battle on the Blackwater, when the king’s fleet had been consumed by green fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
He pushed the thought away before it consumed him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
The Civil War had consumed most of the good horses in the South; they were scarce and valuable. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the lantern’s light lingered, just long enough for Ashoke to raise his hand, a gesture that he believed would consume the small fragment of life left in him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
As soon as that piece of tinder is consumed—that stick at the edge of the fire—your son is destined to die.’” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
There would be house moving to do, changes at work, enough important matters to consume me for the coming weeks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The man was trying to reach into the machinery where an arm and leg had been consumed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
Many objects exist to be exchanged and consumed: sacks of grain, for example, are turned into bread. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy’s bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
Father Nicanor, consumed by hepatic fever, was replaced by Father Coronel, whom they called “The Pup,” a veteran of the first federalist war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
And to the third king he said, ‘You will die because your flesh will be consumed. I give you tuberculosis.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mind was consumed with a wrenching need to get out of that room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
It’s an odd choice for breakfast, but she points out it has a high liquid content, so consuming it is killing two birds with one stone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
The more he drew, the more his expression became intent, focused, consumed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z
She walks over and stands so close to me that with each breath I take, I inhale a mix of her flowery perfume and the tart she just consumed. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z
Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z
An absence so decorative, so ornate, it was difficult for her to understand how she had ever endured, without falling dead or being consumed, his magnificent presence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
Sometimes I felt like I was being consumed from within like a person with one of those freak diseases where you digest your own stomach. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
“They are too consumed with each other to notice our presence,” the captain says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
Aunty Uju had steadied herself into her new life with a lightness of touch, more consumed by The General himself than by her new wealth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
“I have to consume everything he says and try to do what he’s asking.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Lillian drank a cup of black coffee as she watched Bull inelegantly consume a plate of eggs, biscuits, and country ham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
There cannot be very many hunters, because if they consume all the floaters, the hunters themselves will perish. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fire, in addition to consuming buildings, sidewalks, and trees, had also taken a human toll. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The new endeavor consumed as many person-hours as it could be given. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Screaming and wailing, the girls try to escape before fire consumes the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
As the roofs and then the interiors of the surrounding structures were consumed by the flames, a scorching wind swept around the alley. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z
I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
While some nomadic hunter-gatherers may occasionally bag more food than they can consume in a few days, such a bonanza is of little use to them because they cannot protect it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“Crash, I guess we just feel that animals are God’s creatures and that it’s not for us to, uh, consume them.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z
They danced as the flames consumed them,- they staggered and writhed and spun and raised blazing hands on high, their fingers bright as torches. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z
The strikers were consumed with hatred—not limited to strikebreakers but directed at blacks as a race. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
“They should never know how much they consumed, and how much they wasted.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
I felt as if I were being consumed by flames. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
Sometimes I would get word of her death—the ferry had sunk with her and my mother aboard, or more often the taxi had crashed and her lovely body had been consumed in the flames. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Had it been consumed or eliminated by the dominant allele? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
How lonely it must have been to live twenty-some years with such a disease, to persist without complaint as your body is slowly and inexorably consumed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
As fuel was consumed, the ship got lighter, and the acceleration more pronounced. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
When Henige wrote Numbers from Nowhere, the fight about pre- Columbian population had already consumed forests’ worth of trees—his bibliography is ninety pages long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Cereal crops alone now account for more than half of the calories consumed by the world’s human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Now they are gathered together in great eating camps, where they consume the mounting pile of surplus corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
Gaea wanted to consume her identity, just as she’d overwhelmed Hazel’s mother. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
Large telescopes are cumbersome things, and much of their operational time is consumed with being maneuvered into position. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
During the day, he was consumed by concern, and he limited the time he spent on presidential business. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
The baseball was gone, consumed by the black waters. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z
Exhaustion consuming him, his mind wandered to his short time in the Maze, his time as a Runner and how much he’d wanted it—ever since that first night in the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
But because we dared to challenge the Southern tradition of segregation, this school became, instead, a furnace that consumed our youth and forged us into reluctant warriors. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
We ate so much sweet bread and consumed so much tart lemonade, we felt gluttonous, but sinfully content. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
He saw an opportunity as the rest of the living room was consumed with chatter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Howard’s attempts at “I am” consumed precious lesson time, already too short after the work week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Shuttled from one specialist to the next, the girl had been prescribed to shun garlic, consume disproportionate quantities of bitters, meditate, drink green coconut water, and swallow raw duck’s eggs beaten in milk. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
In order to survive, human beings have to consume food, which is an ordered form of energy, and convert it into heat, which is a disordered form of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
In his stone paws, he held a stone acorn that he would never get to consume. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z
Already the flames were dying down as the ancient timbers were consumed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her—each time Clive left her—exhausted and distraught. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z
Literally hundreds of aphids are consumed by a single ladybug to stoke the little fires of energy which she requires to produce even a single batch of eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
The colors deepened, glorifying Ishtar and pushing Nergal into a darkness that verged on consuming existence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
To kill for him—to be a fang in the mouth of the beast that had already consumed half of Erilea...“And if I accept?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z
Corbett was the boxer who had downed John L. Sullivan in the great fight of September 1892, a battle that had consumed the entire front page of the next morning’s Chicago Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
He peeked around the corner of the sofa and watched flames consume the boxes of cereal and macaroni that Mama had just bought. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the river of surplus corn is waiting and so the cows must be forced to consume it and turn it into beef you and I can buy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
Of all these small burrowers, the voracious shrews find and consume the largest number of sawfly cocoons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
With their hours together, his and The Giver’s, consumed by conversation and by the transmission of memories, Jonas had not yet opened any of the books. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
When she had consumed the parts she considered her share of food, she stopped eating. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z
Then the fire consumed them and they were gone forever from mortal sight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
Selfishly, I wondered if I were in his shoes, would I be consumed with sad thoughts of all that I had missed? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
For eighty days, anxious Americans consumed every detail about President Garfield's medical condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He consumed hours each day leafing through law books, compiling research that he hoped would help reverse his conviction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
We know for a fact that they conquered old age and death, with a spell called Vampir, which requires consuming the blood of innocents....” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
But my sister and Leyla were too consumed by fits of laughter to help me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
It's a paltry amount of power, compared to what the rover consumes, but it's not nothing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
In this uncomfortable position, he imagined returning to the house and finding it consumed by a violent column of orange flames, reaching skywards like a snapping, hissing monster. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z
I want her to be proud of me for taking a stand, but if she has any pride at all, it’s been consumed by her fear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
But now the days that had once dragged rush all too quickly toward evening—those same hours are consumed with Gogol, pacing the three rooms of the apartment with him in her arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Our arms brush, and something in me is activated; my senses are suddenly consumed by Chris. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
But she feared that this was because theirs was a relationship consumed in sips: She saw him when she came home on holiday; they wrote to each other; they talked on the phone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
“I’m done waiting,” he said, the rage spilling over, consuming him, and he bolted for the doors of Blessed Way Church and shoved his way outside. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Yet the palaces unveiled in the Rookery were so immense, so detailed, that their construction was likely to consume nearly all the remaining time, leaving little for him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
In the final dialogue with her husband, before he took her to the asylum, Celia talked about how the baby had no shadow, how the earth in its hunger had consumed it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
But travel consumed time, ships and horses being what they were, and the time away from Florin was worrying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
I consume six in a row, sitting with my back against a tree. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
Many nonprofits consumed 20 to 25 percent of their donations for overhead. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
If he kisses me, I am afraid I will be consumed by the hungry and humiliating urgency that I felt the first time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
In another study, researchers at the University of San Francisco appear to have found more evidence of the cost of constantly consuming information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
I writhed against the ropes, consumed by fury that felt so much greater than myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
I pictured the man as a raging demon, slashing with his pen, consumed with hate, denouncing everything American, extolling everything European or German, laughing at the weaknesses of people, mocking God, authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
Instead, I breathe in deeply and let this new sensation consume me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Her stomach twisted as she stemmed two different kinds of pain, refusing to let either consume her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
His mouth watered at the cold veal and cream pastries and champagne Akaky consumed the night his precious coat was stolen, in spite of the fact that Ashoke had never tasted these things himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
Cabot Searcy suddenly found himself consumed by self-important thoughts as to how he could single-handedly save mankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z
A few gowns, like Bandit’s, betrayed the twelve-course dinner the clansmen had consumed earlier. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z
I saw mountains of potatoes—oceans—more potatoes than you would think the world’s population could consume in a hundred years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Guilt consumed him when he realized how he truly felt—he’d been relieved that Ben was dead, that he didn’t have to worry about facing him again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
What consumed him in this period mostly was something new: his first purely commercial venture, built around his first invention totally unconnected with the work of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
If you go back and read the basic economics textbooks, they will tell you: Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z
Each may consume several hundred aphids before the ceaseless turning of the cycle of its life brings the time when it will spin a white silken cocoon in which to pass the pupal stage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“Here’s what’s going to happen now. You can take the scholarship money, and we’re done. Goodbye. Or you can take the five million plus and consume it all in thirty days.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
It took no time, no thought at all, for me to be fully consumed by my new role as a mother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
Instead, I became consumed with the business of existing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He is parched from the alcohol he has consumed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
When the marvelous meal is consumed, we step out of the restaurant and into the late afternoon light just as a pickup camper pulls up to the library. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Only the rainwater and the food provided at the Cornucopia are safe to consume. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
“And didn’t they consume transport?” asked the student. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
It grew out of control, filling the city streets like The Blob, consuming everyone and everything in its path. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Truly, the gods had heard Jon's prayer that night; the fire had caught in the dead man's clothing and consumed him as if his flesh were candle wax and his bones old dry wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z
He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
The cedars that had once grown tall along the coast grew no more, felled by the axes of the Old Empire or consumed by dragonfire when Ghis made war against Valyria. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
The female child in them, who had been me, stopped being a child and became something else, something threatening and ruthless, something that would consume them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
He listened to Mexican music on the radio, smoked, and consumed more aspirin than food. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z
And in another 45 percent of families, parents consumed five hours of screen time per day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
When all the food had been consumed, Dumbledore stood up and asked the students to do the same. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z
All in all, I spent my time in an aimless, crushing sadness, consumed by an alternating dread and desire that I might be caught. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z
Those mammals thereby yield several times more calories over their lifetime than if they were just slaughtered and consumed as meat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
He loved Indian and Chinese food and consumed what seemed like barrelsful of salads whenever they were available. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
She was completely overcome with fear, consumed by pain. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z
I was so consumed by my feelings for Evan that it never crossed my mind that smoking pot was a privilege afforded to American teenagers and not us undocumented kids. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
She and the others are consumed by the slayings of the two uncles; they pay little attention to Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z
“We consumed most of our small remaining stock of luxuries,” he wrote later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
The idea was to make them want to be going out into the country at every available opportunity, and so compel them to consume transport. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harry’s belief in and longing for the Hallows consumed him so much that he felt quite isolated from the other two and their obsession with the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Drums had begun to beat, the fire was blazing fiercely, great long orange tongues consuming the fuel and thrusting upwards and sometimes outwards as if to engulf the watchers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
Soon they entered an archway of low-hanging oaks, the bottommost branches consumed by soft stalactites of moss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
For thirty seconds, both squadrons whooped and hollered in an obstreperous rally that was becoming more paleolithic in nature in direct proportion to the number of drinks consumed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
She buried her cheek in the extra folds of his sweater and watched the paint curl as the fire consumed the blocks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
Putrefying bodies, bodies consumed by carrion eaters were constantly replaced, but the heading always advanced. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
However, something then went wrong between them–nobody is quite sure what–and by the following year they had developed an enmity that would grow into consuming hatred over the next thirty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
I flailed my arms about, consumed by images of quicksand from old Tarzan movies and episodes of Gilligan’s Island. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z
I knelt there, stunned, watching the flames consume them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
As the body was consumed by flames, Kami’s mother wailed inconsolably and struck her head with a sharp rock. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
Each day, she seemed to drift further away, to become more insubstantial; it was as if she had the same peculiar wasting illness that had consumed Minnie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
At night, when Jagu was particularly restless, consumed by his fears and fantasies, she put him to bed like a child, with her hand on his forehead. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
They reached the bottom of the steps just before the cellar doors fell in, consumed with flames from the outside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
What’s left when everything worthwhile has been consumed, dark powder for the wind to take. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
It was that same unwanted tourist most days, not because Moss saw no need for it, but because he was tired of it consuming him so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
He had started the great project already, and he was consumed by it, giving it hours and hours every day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
Brannon, now bound to play out whatever mad charade that Odum wished, dutifully and with utmost gravity began to consume his cigar after he had carefully extinguished it in his water glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was later, after another dinner of plain white rice had been consumed and tea forgone again on account of the drought, after Rasheed had smoked a cigarette, that he told Laila about his decision. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z
It explodes and consumes them in a cloud of tear gas. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z
It was past midnight before the fire consumed all the remains. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Spiced wine poured from spigots, overflowed pitchers and goblets, and was consumed like water. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
They consumed the pages and were consumed by ideas. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z
Their bodies were slowly consuming themselves, shriveling until they were gaunt and dry as raisins, skin stretched over sinew and bone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Since it was not a Friday and there was no happy hour, he had forgotten to keep track of how much liquor his father had consumed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The rest of the afternoon was largely consumed by the collection of facts and figures. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z
We want to serve and to share, to labor and in turn consume that which is due to us. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z
It had taken a moment to register that she had not yet consumed any milk that day. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Humans and monkeys are both primates, and Ebola feeds on primates in the same way that a predator consumes certain kinds of flesh. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Two of them became ill shortly after being appointed, while the sickness in the city consumed the time of the other two. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
My next is of blunt, consuming rage as Keenan’s face swims into focus. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
“The Court cannot listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner’s counsel has already consumed three hours in presenting.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Since then, I had been consumed with trying to resolve lingering questions, to fill in the gaps in the FBI’s investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
It was the slim edition of The Gold-Bug wedged between the trash can and the wall that consumed his thoughts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
The only thing Gaea needed was a willing sacrifice—a soul to be consumed for Alcyoneus to awaken. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z
The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
But instead he was consumed by the gnawing realization that to get them out, they’d have to go in and fight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
And they were strong: if just one HeLa cell landed in a culture dish, it took over, consuming all the media and filling all the space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
She knew the fire that burned without consuming! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
She turned around slowly, half expecting a monster to rise up and consume her—but there was nothing but the door. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
But consumed with her studies and excited by the prospect of additional concerts in Europe, Marian was quite certain that she wasn’t ready for marriage. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z
Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It is almost - impossible to describe this hunger that consumed us,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z
Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the front room of my apartment our radio was playing, pouring a white man’s voice into my home, a voice that hinted of a coming war that would consume millions of lives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
For five days the previous October the “power fire,” as it was called, had roared across these mountains, consuming seventeen thousand acres of pine and cedar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
I swallow and try not to let fear consume me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z
Then sanctuary business consumed her, and I saw her only occasionally throughout the day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The art consumes me in a deeper way than it has before, the colors on the poster more real, throbbing with all the emotions in my heart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all fire, the silence that consumes all speech. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z
I had consumed practical guides to homicide investigations, so I knew that the longer it took to solve a crime, the more likely it was that it would never be solved. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z
I backed up, but the threads consumed me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z
We did not know the name of whatever was consuming this tiny girl and the doctors could not explain the nature of the problem. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tally had already noticed how much everyone had consumed for lunch. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
For the next nine years, knowing that I’d earned it, I made myself a fat peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast each morning and consumed not a single egg. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
We manage to produce a little extra palm oil for sale in Luanda, but most of what we grow is consumed here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Every lyric of “Amazing Grace” is consuming me, opening my eyes real wide. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z
A terrible anger consumes me, virulent as a sickness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’d been consumed and out of control, every part of him wanting to destroy that pilot. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z
Just as Voldemort had not been able to possess Harry while Harry was consumed with grief for Sirius, so his thoughts could not penetrate Harry now, while he mourned Dobby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z
He later gained back six percent, but had virtually no body fat—his body had consumed all extra weight and he would remain lean and wiry for several years. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
I mean the leg-hair thing—you know, consuming the flesh of the living—not the whiskey, because that made me feel like the Wild Boy of Bainbridge Island. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
One day, when the wound was smarting terribly, Siddhartha rowed across the river, consumed by longing, and got out of the boat with the purpose of going to the town to seek his son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
And Felicia consumed so much alcohol that a cloud of whiskey followed her wherever she went. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a moist, hot September day and the air was heavy enough to exact a toll from anyone consuming it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
She watched until the delicate flames consumed the rag, watched until the blaze was hot and floating in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
It had been rebuilt after a fire consumed the original hall. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
How a four horse team whipped into a run on a straightaway consumes the road, surging and surging over it! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the beginning of a chronic problem for Seabiscuit, who loved eating so much that he often followed up his regular meals by consuming his own bedding. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
The sensational legal battle that followed utterly consumed him until, several months later, all the charges were finally dropped. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
But his work with the NSA in the mid-1950s brought his concerns to the fore, and the ethics of secrecy started to consume him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
She held it to the candle and watched the smoke curl up, until the last of it had been consumed and the flame was licking at her fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
Water trickles over my head as my hand finds hers and I finally let the darkness consume me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
It was as if our sorrow was so consuming that there was no room for anything else. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z
She yawned and watched the front of the car consume the white line in the highway. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
If he didn’t, he knew that his anxiety would consume him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
This time the apartment was exactly as I’d last seen it, except the Katz Diet Coke can was gone, consumed by the forlorn friend from Idaho. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
A second piece of bacon was mutilated and consumed in two carnivorous gulps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
The houses were consumed; the bricks of houses still standing were blackened; the air so thick with soot that we now all coughed and gagged at every step. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z
I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
According to most estimates, by the mid-1770s, the average American colonist consumed more than three quarts of molasses a year—making it an irreplaceable part of the colonial economy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z
On the twenty-sixth day of the fifteen-day march, the last of the vegetables was consumed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z
He tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib, which he consumed in a matter of minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The knowledge releases me, finally, from the fear that has consumed me for days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
This was the beginning of the American Revolution, a war that before it was over would claim many lives and consume the entire American colony. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Comparing texts word by word turned out to be quite the consuming task. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
He lets out a horrible scream and falls to the ground, fire consuming his flesh. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z
“I have found several empty'wine bottles about lately, the contents of which I certainly did not consume.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then it registered that he had not consumed any milk yet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
Dumbledore led them in a few of his favorite carols, Hagrid booming more and more loudly with every goblet of eggnog he consumed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z
He was consumed with curiosity but still felt too ill to look closely at his surroundings. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
It was the look of a man who had lived long enough to understand grief’s consuming fire. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
The earth in its hunger has consumed it. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
Above him, the whaler had been totally consumed by noxious flames. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
“Spending money on the poor is like throwing money into a fire. They’ll just consume it and never thank you,” Tool said. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
My work was interesting and rewarding, but still I had to be careful not to let it consume me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
In the days that followed September 15, 1963, sadness consumed me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
Almost consumed by grief, he made a decision. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Today, most people on Earth consume food that they produced themselves or that someone else produced for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Mr. Matenopoulos and the others were consumed by their gloom and Burton seemed the only one to notice as the young man drank half the glass of cloudy water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Then the queen would return the book to its place and wish me good night I would go to my room heavy with guilt yet consumed by curiosity. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z
At dinner, Raymie’s mother watched in astonishment as Louisiana consumed four entire pieces of meat loaf and all her green beans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z
On some days I found myself thinking every waking moment about nothing else but my safety—consumed with learning skills that would keep me alive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
As it blazed up, Meleager fell to the ground dying, and by the time it was consumed his spirit had slipped away from his body. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though she was allowed to visit him often, she was consumed by the guilt of living apart from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Of all the creatures I knew, in those days, only my mother really looked at me.—Stared at me as if to consume me, like a troll. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
Short-chain aliphatic compounds are elaborated by female monkeys in response to estradiol, and these are of consuming interest to the males. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
They wouldn’t even bury her proper, just let the water take the boat and the body and both would be consumed by sea monsters. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
Scheer consumed many beers; I worked my way through one or two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
After he swallowed the egg yolks whole, Bull spread a gluttonous helping of Crosse and Blackwell orange marmalade on two pieces of toast and consumed them with as much noise as relish. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was the slim edition of The Gold-Bug wedged between the trash can and the wall that consumed his thoughts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z
The Chiclets were his to hold before the doctor saw him, and to consume after. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Patty, the friendly nurse with the diamond engagement ring and a fringe of reddish hair beneath her cap, tells Ashima to consume only the Jell-O and the apple juice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
I will open my jaws and take you—but I will not consume you. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
The physical cause for this health decline was, he knew, the too strenuous consuming of Paradise products. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her father had been consumed by hate for others—and perhaps even himself—but he had still been a great man, and had done much for the community. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z
All I could think of was the fissure in the dining room pavilion, where those skeletons had been consumed last summer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z
I work on consuming my hot turkey sandwich. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
I consumed boxes of books and wanted more, more, more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
Bronwyn paced along the wall, chewing her fingers, too consumed by worry to eat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
No power could hold this army back, no water disperse them, no fire consume them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
All around us, groups of five to ten people sit together and quietly consume just enough food to live for another day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
I felt, I suppose, a rage tall and consuming as the fires we set. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
They may deposit their eggs within the larvae or eggs of their prey, so that their own developing young may find food by consuming the host. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
But climbing was unlike golf or tennis or the various other pastimes that consumed his cronies. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
She fought for breath, as if that stare was incinerating all the oxygen in the room, as if she would be consumed along with it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
“War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z
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