How to Use consumption in a Sentence

consumption

noun

• The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
• There’s a change in consumption habits, a challenge to the status quo.
  — Matthew Askari, Robb Report, 27 July 2022
• Now!, a group that advocates for sites for safe consumption of drugs in the state.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• This has a lot to do with the fact that women are growing food for their own consumption.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• 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
• Sessions by the Bay was the sole consumption lounge applicant and earned 2,900.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• 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
• And how much of this is tied to our own consumption habits, our endless scrolling, or our desire to buy new things every year?
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2022
• Fresh corn consumption is on the rise around the world, notably in China, where yellow corn juice is a drink loved by children.
  — Bee Wilson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
• More than 85% of the UK’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
• But any such boom in consumption, of course, incurs other costs.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 3 May 2022
• 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
• The goal is to reduce overall water consumption by 35% in the face of the water shortage, Upadhyay said.
  — Byjulia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Some of that increase has come at the expense of beef, and some has been part of an overall increase in meat consumption per capita.
  — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Although the product has not been in stores for months, some customers may have frozen the product for later consumption.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
• And note that those who are now actually making their student loan payments must forego other uses of those funds, a large portion of which was consumption.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
• The study noted that energy consumption can vary based on the user’s proximity to local energy grids and the hardware used to run AI models.
  — Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 22 June 2025