Example sentences for: consume

How can you use “consume” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bacteria within the body--especially E. coli from the gut--immediately start to consume the flesh.

  • We take this opportunity to inform our readers that they are under no obligation to read the music or movie reviews, or to follow the gardening column, or to listen to the poem, in order to consume the news and political analysis.

  • A more sophisticated statistical salvo, which conservative pundits have shot off recently, is that federal tax revenues now consume the highest percentage of the gross domestic product since World War II.

  • Studies have yet to resolve all the mechanisms of action of LC-PUFA, in particular the remarkable phenotypic differences between populations that consume different quantities of fish and fish oil in their diets [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] . Dietary LC-PUFA affect processes including: growth, neurological development, lean and fat mass accretion, reproduction, innate and acquired immunity, infectious pathologies of viruses, bacteria and parasites; and the incidence and severity of virtually all chronic and degenerative diseases including cancer, atherosclerosis, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and neurodegenerative, inflammatory, and skin diseases [ 6 7 8 9 10 11 ] . Due to lack of mechanistic knowledge, predictions for optimal intake of nutritionally important LC-PUFA remain vague and dietary recommendations simply relate to prevention of overt deficiency.

  • After all, he argues, although countries that produce more than they consume must run trade surpluses, these surpluses will guarantee high consumption because the resulting national income increase "has to show up somewhere ." Moreover, he observes, most emerging economies are running global trade deficits--i.e.


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