How to use consume in a sentence

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• We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.From the entry skim milk
• We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.From the entry skimmed milk
• Last year this portion of the grid consumed more than a thousand megawatt-hours of electricity.From the entry electricity
• The downfall of the chairman is an obsession that consumes Laura's time.From the entry obsession
• His estimate that they would consume 23 boxes was on the nose.From the entry on the nose
• A well run-in engine is likelier to consume less crankcase oil over the course of its working life.From the entry run-in
• Time can be consumed figuratively like food.From the entry figuratively
• My tractor is a gas-hog! It consumes a disproportionately high amount of fuel for the amount of work it performs.From the entry gas-hog
• The body had been consumed by necrophagous insects.From the entry necrophagous
• The city consumes boatfuls of fish every day.From the entry boatful
• The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.From the entry self-perpetuating
• Even if one appliance consumes an indifferent amount of energy when left on stand-by overnight, together they can represent 10% of the electricity demand of a household.From the entry indifferent
• Militarisation had long consumed a vast amount of the nation's resources.2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC. From the entry degradation
• Agribulk is the basis of food that is later consumed by people.2025 May 2, “Agribulk inland shipping”, in Transito. From the entry agribulk
• The slopification of everything isn’t just changing what we consume, it’s changing what we are.2025 October 29, Will Bennett, “The ‘slopification’ and ‘enshittification’ of everything”, in The Spectator Australia, archived from the…. From the entry slopification
• Rich people consume more than poor people on an absolute basis, film at eleven.2024 March 29, Patrick McKenzie, Anatomy of a credit card rewards program. From the entry film at 11
• The Black Budget currently consumes one point twenty-five trillion dollars per year.2024 November 5, David Orange, Below Level 7, World Castle Publishing, LLC, →ISBN. From the entry D.U.M.B.
• Today, arrack is still produced and consumed in parts of Indonesia.2021, Jiří Jákl, Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, BRILL, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry arrack
• Both iiwis and apapanes also consume arthropods by gleaning and occasionally flycatching (pers. observ.).2021, Laura Landweber, Andrew Dobson, Genetics and the Extinction of Species, page 144. From the entry apapane
• It's weird to think about or whatever but mothers are the first things we consume lolsob.2019, Tommy Pico, “Acknowledgements”, in Feed, unnumbered page. From the entry lolsob
• Using a steamer for cooking can also cut down on the amount of oil you consume.2017, Steve Alvest, The Life Actionbook. From the entry mister
• In their human guise the gumiho will seduce a man, kill him, and then consume his liver.2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 146. From the entry gumiho
• They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.”[2016 May 16, Stephen J. Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene”, in Slate, →ISSN. From the entry Pyrocene
• It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide.2015, J. Powell, Mastering vRealize Automation 6.2, page 41. From the entry compute
• There are entities and phenomena which harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves.2015 January 30, qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 9-10. From the entry hieroglyph
• Muslims are not meant to consume alcohol, according to the Koran.2015 June 22, Ben Blanchard, “Exiles angered as China holds beer festival in Muslim county”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from…. From the entry Koran
• Americans had never been so consumed by a single news story.2015 October 2, Julia Zorthian, “How the O.J. Simpson Verdict Changed the Way We All Watch TV”, in Time, archived from the original on 17…. From the entry news cycle
• I've never been consumed by so much occhiolism, I was so small so insignificant.2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 186. From the entry occhiolism
• After the monomer is consumed, the reaction mixture is cooled to room temperature.2014, Dylan J. Boday, Timothy C. Mauldin, Flame-retardant polylactic acid (PLA) by grafting through of phosphorus-containing polymers…. From the entry filtride
• If the world around them still existed, or had been consumed in a fiery hellstorm of doom.2014, Maisey Yates, Unbroken, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry hellstorm
• As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry rumen

Meaning of consume

1. verb To use up.
2. verb To eat.
3. verb To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

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Questions about consume in a sentence

How do you use consume in a sentence?

Consume is used as a verb. For example: “The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.”

What is a short sentence with consume?

“Desire consumed him.”

What does consume mean?

Consume means to use up.