energy-consuming
Example Sentences
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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
With black market gas prices nearly double, some are looking to cook on wood stoves or use less energy-consuming methods.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
This outer train of reactors would operate at generally cooler temperatures and would be used to evacuate oxygen from the hotter inner train, without the need for energy-consuming mechanical pumps.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023
The relationship between black holes and accretion disks is one of the most energy-consuming processes in the universe, right up there with gamma-ray bursts, in which black holes devour entire stars, Kaaz said.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2023
The thoughts that run through his brain are not new, constructive, energy-consuming thoughts, but the same old thoughts that have been going around in circles for days and weeks at a time.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
