Example Sentences

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In hindsight, she believes her insecurities were shaped by the content she was "consuming".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

But some of the water it was consuming came by truck from Hampshire, which was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

The application was consuming me, organizing my synapses like an automaton farmer who makes Munsen predictions regarding the historical flow of neurotransmission.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

Mr. Piro’s involvement in “Rocky Horror” was consuming, but it wasn’t a paying job.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2023

A few miles north, in the pleasant kitchen of a modest farmhouse, Dick was consuming a Sunday dinner.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote