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Example sentences for: consumes

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

Government spending consumes resources.
The more it consumes Congress' attention and the nastier it gets, the angrier the public will become.
A Web site is basically an electronic collection plate, which consumes few of a candidate's resources.
A kindred ambivalence marks Kusama's "Food Obsession" sculptures, inspired, she claimed, by the image of all the food a person consumes in a lifetime passing by on a conveyor belt.
So hotter environments should support lower population densities, as each individual consumes resources more quickly, leaving less to go round.