How to Use consumption in a Sentence
consumption
noun- The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
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Each room coughs up its contents like a kid with consumption.
—Marni Jameson, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
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The catch is that consumption has scaled faster than prices have fallen.
—Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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So even as unit costs fall, total consumption may rise.
—Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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The full menu seems too much for public consumption.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
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All that, and an abundance of taco consumption.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2026
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Some would allow raw milk to be sold for human consumption for the first time.
—Laura Ungar, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
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And all of this consumption seems to be doing something to our health.
—WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
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And low-touch consumption isn’t going away.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
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This has a lot to do with the fact that women are growing food for their own consumption.
—Ashoka, Forbes, 2 May 2022
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These health problems have in turn been linked to higher red meat consumption.
—Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
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And both invoke their consumption habits to score points against the other side.
—Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026
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Girls are more available for consumption, and girls have more available to them.
—Zoe Yu, Longreads, 28 May 2024
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There’s a change in consumption habits, a challenge to the status quo.
—Matthew Askari, Robb Report, 27 July 2022
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About a fifth of the world’s oil consumption flows through the strait on an average day.
—Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 17 Mar. 2026
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At $30 a yard, the fabric is not for mass consumption.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
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But any such boom in consumption, of course, incurs other costs.
—Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 3 May 2022
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But proof of this consumption had been elusive—until now.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2026
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Farmers are working to boost consumption at home, too.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
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Ramping down their consumption at times of high demand.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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Those leagues reveal where sports consumption may be heading.
—Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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Well, one thing to note is the import content of consumption for rich people is quite low.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
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New research links legume and soy consumption with a lower risk of high blood pressure.
—Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 19 May 2026
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If your blood pressure is very high, be mindful of your caffeine consumption.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
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The soil and clay consumption wasn’t limited to a handful of events.
—Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
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The key is limit your consumption and pair these drinks with meals and snacks that promote satiety.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 23 Oct. 2025
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The hours of consumption was set to depend on special event permits.
—Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
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Some recent studies have shed light on the effect of cannabis consumption.
—Zoe Cummings, Washington Post, 13 July 2026
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But borrowing to fund consumption or to juice headline growth is not.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
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Our waistlines grow with consumption and vice versa.
—David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
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