How to Use consumption in a Sentence
consumption
noun- The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
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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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Now!, a group that advocates for sites for safe consumption of drugs in the state.
—Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
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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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And all of this consumption seems to be doing something to our health.
—WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
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Susanne Rust tracked her plastic consumption for a week and shared the results with the world.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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While the findings suggest that the consumption of melatonin has grown in the U.S., it is still considered to be on the low side.
—Serena Coady, SELF, 3 Feb. 2022
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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
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That hasn’t been the case, however, with gasoline consumption down 9% over the last year.
—Hardika Singh, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
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Ours is a friendship forged through and powered by the consumption of Chinese food.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
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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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Sessions by the Bay was the sole consumption lounge applicant and earned 2,900.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
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So [the awareness] is very widespread, but at the same time, meat consumption keeps going up.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
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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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The drop in supply equates to about a month of food consumption for Kenya and Somalia combined.
—Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2023
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Wine, much of which had for so long been produced for local consumption, was being shipped around the world.
—New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
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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
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About 20% of the world’s daily consumption of oil passes through it every day.
—Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
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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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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
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Even as the train started to leave the tracks, few in the Sum 41 camp offered support about the increase in alcohol consumption.
—Niko Stratis, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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More than 85% of the UK’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
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While the West’s decades-long drought has contributed to the lake’s decline, much of the problem can be traced back to Utahns’ own water consumption habits.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
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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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More than 85% of the U.K.’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
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That consumption is slated to double within the next decade.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2023
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In a subgroup who smoked, there was a significant reduction in the consumption of cigarettes per day as well.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
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This was 1929 in Alexandria, Egypt, and its author never intended the manuscript for public consumption.
—Natalie Bakopoulos august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
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