consume

Example Sentences

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Today’s graduates face education costs that consume years of earnings while carrying debt their grandparents never imagined.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Run-A-Muck is premised on the idea that consumers who enjoy a story, world or other type of intellectual property will consume as much of it as possible in whatever form they can.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"That hand you get dealt can consume you or you can walk through a door where you can use it as a powerful message to the world," he said.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

"In addition, pygmy rattlesnakes were expected to have an increased prevalence of Ro, as they primarily consume lizards and frogs which are known to transmit the parasite."

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

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.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson