consist of

verb

consisted of; consisting of; consists of

: to be formed or made up of (specified things or people)

Breakfast consisted of cereal, fruit, and orange juice.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

His wardrobe consists almost entirely of jeans and T-shirts.

The crowd consisted mainly/largely of teenage girls.

Examples of consist of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In June, Animal Rescue Rigs founder Nik Miles led an all-electric SUV fleet — provided by the automakers — consisting of a Hyundai IONIQ 9, Cadillac Escalade IQ, Lucid Gravity and Kia EV9. — Summer Ballentine, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Its walls, made in a Tijuana factory, consist of plywood panels insulated with foam. — Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

To protest the British proposal, 1,000 musicians — including Kate Bush, Paul McCartney and Hans Zimmer — released an album containing 12 uncredited tracks consisting of recordings of empty studios and performance spaces. — Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026

Legacy estates routinely consist of tens of thousands of ETL jobs, millions of lines of SQL and years of undocumented business logic spread across multiple platforms simultaneously. — Chetan Mathur, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Rhymes for consist of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove