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

To give a concrete example, if the pressure of your supply is 200 volts, and you take a current of five amperes for an hour, you will have consumed one B.T.U.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

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 Keynes, John Maynard

On the ninth day beasts and drivers will have consumed all the supplies taken with them.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund

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 Steele, Joel Dorman