Example Sentences

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Cars have been consuming a larger share of the average household income over the past few years.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

The new MIT study suggests living organisms may also have been consuming it.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Overall, the region's oil refineries have been consuming less crude than a year ago amid lacklustre economic growth, Euroilstock data has shown.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2023

But humans have been consuming these fungi for thousands of years, and some theories suggesting our ancestors even ate them millions of years ago.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022

If his blindness was the cause of the loss, his frustration and guilt must have been consuming.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand