CONSUME in a Sentence

Learn CONSUME from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

186 example sentences for CONSUME, such as:

1. A candle lights others and consumes itself.
2. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
3. The government instituted a consumer protection agency.
4. The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
5. The boom was fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSUME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consume
 v.  devour; eat
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
2  His sorrow was like those recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
3  Mabeuf never had any fire in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume any candles.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
4  Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
5  In any case Marija would bring back a huge pocketful of cakes and sandwiches for the children, and stories of all the good things she herself had managed to consume.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
8  He was one of those English tourists who consume a large fortune in travelling.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 69. The Inquiry.
9  I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  It took him three-quarters of an hour to consume everything.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
11  Wherefore arise, and make ready with good cheer to arm thy people and march through thy gates to battle; consume those Phrygian captains that lie with their painted hulls in the beautiful river.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
12  The number of people who stand ready to consume one's time, to no purpose, is almost countless.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
13  Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
14  For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
15  At length, with a terrific crash, the whole turret gave way, and she perished in the flames which had consumed her tyrant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
16  A food supplement is a preparation intended to supply nutrients, which are missing or not consumed in sufficient quantity in a person's diet.
17  The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or even prohibit its production entirely.
18  Thirty years after the war, she could not let go of the past but was still consumed with rancor against the foe.
19  I always believe that killing innocent animals and consuming their flesh is amoral.
20  It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data.
21  The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.
22  A candle lights others and consumes itself.
23  Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
24  It is an issue for those that have made large strides in industrial development: the sector of economy consumes the most energy.
25  The government instituted a consumer protection agency.
26  The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
27  Rising consumer sales have the effect of spurring the economy to faster growth.
28  We need more feedback from the consumer in order to improve our goods.
29  The UK is the biggest consumer of tropical hardwoods after Japan.
30  The boom was fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products.