Sentence:  It was enough for <WSD>people</WSD> to know that at one time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed - watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance , as thin as the seams on her stockings , and still thinner . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively