Example sentences for: consummation

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

  • And of course, there is, once the liaison is on the verge of consummation, the age-old question of whose name to take.

  • The Journal notes the demise of a hallowed cultural institution: the wedding-night consummation.

  • After a brief respite in private life, Trudeau returned for what he felt was his crowning achievement, the Constitution Act of 1982, the consummation of Canada’s political identity.

  • (The report was first discussed last week in the Washington Post , which today runs a story on it inside, as does the New York Times .) The top non-local story at the WP is the consummation of the long-awaited deal by which the federal government and the state of California have agreed to pay a lumber company $480 million to preserve Northern California's Headwaters Forest, which had been the largest stand of ancient redwoods in private hands.

  • On intercourse: “'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”


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