consume
verb (used with object)
to destroy or expend by use; use up.
will have consumed
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future perfectof consume.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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The federal highway system, by the time it is finished in the late 1970s, will have consumed $76.3 billion.
From Time Magazine Archive
As far as Carquinez Strait, with what we covered yesterday and today, we will have consumed some eight hours all to the northeast, one-quarter north from the mission.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook
On the ninth day beasts and drivers will have consumed all the supplies taken with them.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
A man without food will starve to death in a few days, i. e., the oxygen will have consumed all the available flesh of his body.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
Austria will have consumed the whole of her own harvest for 1919 before the end of the calendar year.
From The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
