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[ UK /kənsˈuːm/ ]
[ US /kənˈsum/ ]
VERB
  1. spend extravagantly
    waste not, want not
  2. engage fully
    The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
  3. eat up completely, as with great appetite
    The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them
    Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
  4. destroy completely
    The fire consumed the building
  5. serve oneself to, or consume regularly
    I don't take sugar in my coffee
    Have another bowl of chicken soup!
  6. use up (resources or materials)
    They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
    this car consumes a lot of gas
    We exhausted our savings

How To Use consume In A Sentence

  • Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
  • A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
  • Before that I was the sales manager with a Bombay consumer electricals company.
  • More and more security experts are lining up against the use of static passwords for e-banking; in part because the technique makes consumers easy prey for phishers.
  • But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
  • Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
  • Some animals may consume insignificant amounts of the primary production.
  • People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.
  • We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 
  • Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.
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