How to Use consumption in a Sentence

consumption

noun

• The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
• Now!, a group that advocates for sites for safe consumption of drugs in the state.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• As social media takes on a bigger role in consumption, music rights holders are keen to lock in their cut of revenue.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• And the one that claimed his former Fox colleagues worried about his alcohol consumption.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
• Social media has allowed people to peek into the ultra wealthy’s lives in a way that normalizes big consumption habits.
  — Quartz, 22 Nov. 2022
• The study also looked at what the water consumption would be for coal and natural gas if the technology is added to capture the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the planet.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• That shift in consumption also helps explain certain acts having swelled their career top 10 totals to historic highs over relatively short spans in recent years.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2022
• While director Guadagnino insists his film is a romance, the director does not shy away from depicting his characters' consumption of human flesh.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• In contrast, the English National Team was still tinged by a legacy of xenophobic hooliganism in its fan base and the brazen consumption of its stars.
  — Roger Bennett, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• Beer at stadiums would have crossed an important line of private versus public consumption of alcohol, and, in Qatar, the boundaries between those realms is sacrosanct.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2022
• This single-step approach significantly reduces water and energy consumption for production as well as post-drying.
  — Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
• And all of this consumption seems to be doing something to our health.
  — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• Susanne Rust tracked her plastic consumption for a week and shared the results with the world.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Cincinnati was a brewing city in the 1800s, and Over-the-Rhine was the center of beer production and consumption.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
• That hasn’t been the case, however, with gasoline consumption down 9% over the last year.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• Ours is a friendship forged through and powered by the consumption of Chinese food.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
• Girls are more available for consumption, and girls have more available to them.
  — Zoe Yu, Longreads, 28 May 2024
• So [the awareness] is very widespread, but at the same time, meat consumption keeps going up.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
• Well, one thing to note is the import content of consumption for rich people is quite low.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
• The drop in supply equates to about a month of food consumption for Kenya and Somalia combined.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2023
• Drug consumption took place for nearly a year before death, based on analysis along the length of the strands.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• About 20% of the world’s daily consumption of oil passes through it every day.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
• Streaming will have to make up the bulk of The Death of Slim Shady’s consumption, as the album has not yet been released in physical form.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 17 July 2024
• More than 85% of the UK’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
• More than 85% of the U.K.’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
• That consumption is slated to double within the next decade.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
• That’s the number of milligrams at which toxic effects of caffeine, like seizures, can occur (at least in the case of rapid consumption), the FDA warns.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Mar. 2023
• After the games, parties, and heavy food consumption, visitors had plenty of places to choose from to lay their heads.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 June 2024
• China’s consumption of ejiao has increased with the country’s wealth.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2024
• But, long before all our technologies of mass consumption and processing, the fate of the tuna was less than steady.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024