Example Sentences

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"You go through bumps, ups and downs. That's what life is consisting of."

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2016

And I mean "dense" in both senses of the word: that is, "consisting of component parts that are closely compacted together" and "delightfully idiotic."

From Newsweek • Mar. 11, 2010

The Answer to this Question may be this: That whatever is approved by lawful Authority, and is not against any positive revealed Law of God, is consisting with the Christian Religion.

From A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) by Anonymous

A most curious place it is; consisting of a large arcade three stories high, about the length of the Burlington Arcade in London, though perhaps rather wider.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)

The second family have the internodes without any cortex—that is, consisting of a single long cell; and the crown at the top of the oögonium is composed of ten cells instead of five.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton