Used in a Sentence

consuming

How to use consuming in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for consuming.

Editorial note

He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy.

Examples18
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of consuming gathered in one view.

adjective

very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for consuming.

adjective

very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

Example sentences

1

He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy.

2

It's a great device for consuming media: books, audio, video. Stock Android is a nice reference platform.

3

I've had a recent incident in which Chrome was consuming about 7GB of memory, just because I had about a hundred tabs open! It was really, really, insane.

4

Amazon's store interface is not well suited for consuming media. I tried watching a few episodes of Friday Night Lights on the service instead of Netflix.

5

Frugality is not about consuming but investing in your life: that often contradicts with cheap. Frugality is about not buying things you don't need but buying things you can't live without.

6

These activities are probably more time consuming than writing the code in the first place. If the writer publishes their code, and other people in the writer's field do not, the writer is usually at a disadvantage.

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And this while consuming the same amount of calories." I can also speak from personal experience: I went gluten-free after being diagnosed with gluten intolerance in 2009.

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Mentally poverty can be an all consuming condition. I've come to think of it as comparable to programming in a high level language versus programming in a low level language.

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We don't see it a lot because writing tools is time consuming and we all have deadlines; so we pic k the "worse is better" solution and hard-code our applications in what amounts to glorified machine code. Just because a practice is common doesn't mean it's a good idea.

10

We could have chosen to ride out multiple other attacks and engage in a lot of time consuming and expensive behavior to preserve a site that was already a source of ops disruption. Making that choice would have been inconsistent with our values and commitments.

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I miss EVE but it is all consuming, especially when you're part of a great alliance/corp. As an member of Goonfleet/Goonswarm, I ran the logistics for the Battle of XZH, where a scrappy group of upstarts from Syndicate waged a weeks long insurgency against a better funded, better equipped force.

12

Yes, you might only need a few chefs for each cuisine worldwide in order to manufacture food, but eating is about much more than simply consuming things that have been manufactured. So while the eating experience may evolve, there's no guarantees one way or the other about how chefs fit into the picture.

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Enforcement is currently aimed at users consuming the most bandwidth, but I'd rather not have to hope that the selective enforcement doesn't apply to my rule violations." Everyone's a felon" and "everyone's violating the contract" is a terrible state of affairs.

14

His almost hysterical, passionate, hyper, consuming personality made it a completely one-sided encounter. It was my pleasure to just sit and listen.

15

Not trying to hijack a data-thread into self-help but when I was out drinking I loved consuming these articles to feel like I wasn't the only one. Having spent some time in AA there are are a LOT of developers, entrepreneurs, hackers that are working the program too, if you're struggling with the alcohol monkey like I was it's a safe thing to at least check out.

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Sure, you enable JavaScript but you don't disable AdBlock and so now you're just consuming resources and contributing negatively to the site you're visiting's bottom line. I understand the myriad justifications for disabling JavaScript, but I don't really care.

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Right now, every other country essentially gets the US to pay the bill for the innovation and they reap the benefits at a lower cost, but with US healthcare already consuming 1/6 of our economy, this isn't sustainable.

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The study claims that after consuming artificial sweeteners, if you then consume something naturally sweet, the prior consumption of an artificial sweetener alters your glucose tolerance levels. It's the equivalent of saying that removing all the trees from around rivers has no effect on fish population because clearly fish don't live in trees.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use consuming in a sentence?

He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy.

What does consuming mean?

very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"

What part of speech is consuming?

consuming is commonly used as adjective.