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
Fall is endlessly fascinating, emotionally harrowing, and consumingly committed to telling the truth as Miller sees it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unless I could commit my fate to one who already loved me consumingly——" She gave a start of protestation as he exclaimed: "I love you consumingly!
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
