consume
verb (used with object)
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
Example Sentences
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Alternate reality games like this are meant to be consumingly weird, as if to say anything not real must be a puzzle, a game, a problem to be worked out.
From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017
The loss was acute not only because of his work’s undoubted seriousness but also because the playful side of Sebald’s originality made him a consumingly interesting and unpredictable artificer.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
The story’s protagonist is named, a bit fussily, Elyria, in commemoration of “a town in Ohio that my mother had never visited,” but the novel, although consumingly pensive, is anything but fussy.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 14, 2014
Winters makes her the most consumingly droll zany since Mildred Natwick, as Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
We know what kind of a fire it was that burnt consumingly within him—a demoniacal ambition, a Titanic eagerness for fame.
From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart
