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intake
noun as in consumption
Example Sentences
But then we went to Japan three or four times a year, and after five years, there wasn’t that kind of intake of breath anymore, and so I just stopped taking pictures of things.
“A small uptick in cow’s milk intake is, obviously, not tantamount to the calamities that have been unleashed over the last six weeks in American politics,” wrote Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova back in March.
Overnight, the plume spread to the city’s drinking water intakes, and 400,000 Toledoans were told to not drink or cook with tap water, or even bathe with it.
A spokesman called the figures a "useful snapshot" but said more data had to be considered for the full picture of next year's university intake.
One study suggested that by irritating the nose and lungs, they stimulate a sharp intake of breath and a short-term rush of oxygen to the brain.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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