consummation

Example Sentences

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“The situation creates noise and a near term floor under eBay shares at a premium to pre-bid levels, but we view the probability of deal consummation in its current form as very low,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Strangely, it tells the history of the earth in reverse, beginning in the present, so humanity isn’t the consummation of evolution, but instead casts its shadow backward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

“The fact,” it said, “that an unforeseeable accident prevented the prompt consummation of the sentence cannot, it seems to us, add an element of cruelty to a subsequent execution.”

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

As its title makes clear, the movie also seeks to cast the Kraffts as well-matched leads in a most unusual love story, one that found its grandest consummation in jaw-dropping eruptions of lava and ash.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022

And all at once a great synthetic bass boomed out the words which announced the approaching atonement and final consummation of solidarity, the coming of the Twelve-in-One, the incarnation of the Greater Being.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley