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Example sentences for "being devoured"

  • Young man," asked he, with his stern voice, "are you not appalled at the certainty of being devoured by this terrible Minotaur?

  • Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobody ever expected to make a voyage, or take a journey, without running more or less risk of being devoured by them.

  • But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done, before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon.

  • I have heard," rejoined the youth, "that a dragon lies beneath the tree on which the prize hangs, and that whoever approaches him runs the risk of being devoured at a mouthful.

  • I was forced to lie down on the ground to repose; but durst not sleep, for fear of being devoured.

  • A repetition, however, of these ferocious attacks threw the poor men into great terror and anxiety, as they were in almost a perpetual danger of being devoured.

  • Because, being always in danger of being devoured by wild beasts, those men must have been always unhappy.

  • I was forced to lie down on the ground to repose, but durst not sleep for fear of being devoured.

  • But there are other things as hard, or perhaps a little harder, to be done before you can even have the privilege of being devoured by the dragon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being afraid; being baptized; being bent; being bound; being brought; being caught; being concerned; being dead; being delivered; being desirous; being haunted; being invisible; being made; being more; being now; being permitted; being seen; being still; being surrounded; being united; being used; being wounded; common level; her old; inverted cone; turned aside