consisted

past tense of consist

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of consisted Until now, Costco’s same-day delivery has consisted largely of teaming up with Instacart for very quick delivery, typically groceries and other essentials. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026 His Together, Together Tour, which in 2026 consisted mostly of extended runs in a handful of cities, will continue into the spring and summer of 2027, as a true road show, with fewer dates and more locales. — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026 The plane's cargo weighed 32,222 pounds and consisted primarily of contact lenses. — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 Doxsee’s job consisted mostly of physical labor—unloading boxcars of grain and other materials, hauling them around the factory, and working the bagging machine on the building’s top floor. — Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026 Subsequent lab tests revealed that the gas consisted almost entirely of pure hydrogen, accompanied only by trace amounts of nitrogen and methane. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026 Her conversation consisted primarily of declarations, some more enigmatic than others. — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026 Transplants from the British Isles In 1776, as the nation’s founding generation proclaimed democratic ideals, music in the emerging United States consisted largely of British ballads, fiddle tunes, sea chanteys and hymns. — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 Myers allegedly said her youngest daughter's diet consisted mainly of yogurt, vegetable pouches and fruit pouches. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consisted
Verb
  • One signal indicated a general emergency, while another corresponded to unlawful interference or a hijacking situation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The timing of the payments corresponded with unusual shifts in Netanyahu’s policies.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The episode coincided with the NFT market’s colonization of cultural assets and collectibles and the rise of its accompanying online culture.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • This development has coincided with rapid institutional adoption of tokenization.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The five networks then agreed not to replace CNN with another network, so there were no pool cameras following Trump on Saturday during his trip to a college football game.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Stan Kroenke agreed to buy a controlling stake in the Los Angeles Angels at a record $4 billion valuation—a price that held despite a decade of losing seasons.
    — Chris Koras, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • As one of the three colorways that conformed with the NBA’s uniform regulations, the sneaker is rendered primarily in white.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup.
    — Kevin Baxter Follow June 7, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • As the industrial age took hold, geometry continued to show force in the colonial infantries abroad and through isomorphic police squadrons that fit neatly into modernizing city blocks patrolled back home.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • When pilots were compared across 10 important physical dimensions, nobody fit the average across all 10.
    — Manjot Pal, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Consisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consisted. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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