consummate

How To Use consummate In A Sentence

• They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality.
• _The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression. Matthew Arnold
• Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
• He was known as a consummate and extraordinarily discreet bureaucrat, but before the Bay of Pigs fiasco he had done little for the new administration and had no real sense of what his fate would be in the new regime. In the Shadow of the Oval Office
• A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled! The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
• It shall be no offence for you to divorce your wives before the marriage is consummated or the dowry is settled.
• Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
• Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
• Households and businesses readily use Credit to consummate transactions, with traditional money playing a small and declining role.
• The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other sins. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible