How to Use consumption in a Sentence

consumption

noun

• The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
• Susanne Rust tracked her plastic consumption for a week and shared the results with the world.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• More than 85% of the UK’s recorded music consumption now takes place through streaming.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
• 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
• But, long before all our technologies of mass consumption and processing, the fate of the tuna was less than steady.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• According to the court documents, Dia’s death was caused by the excessive amount of salt in his bloodstream, caused by the consumption of fish oil.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• Staph symptoms come on hard and fast — as soon as 30 minutes after consumption.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• Hello, old friend China is the world’s largest oil importer and buys 71% of its oil consumption from foreign countries.
  — Laura He, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Hefner had a cache of tapes and videos of orgies and drug consumption to use in case anyone threatened to squeal, according to Theodore and others.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• In the latest quarter, digital consumption trends were up 75% year over year.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
• This Unimog features higher-speed gearing and upgrades to the front portal axles to reduce oil consumption and make the highway drive to the trailhead less of a slog.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
• His office did not reply to a request for specifics on how the bill and marijuana consumption might increase risks.
  — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Root of the Problem The unfortunate man who succumbed to excessive black licorice consumption is not alone.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
• But as the world’s plastic consumption has skyrocketed, so has the amount of plastic waste, and the ecological damage that goes along with it.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023
• The 6,500-square-foot space includes an al fresco cocktail bar, a cannabis dispensary and a food-forward consumption lounge — each with its own point of entry.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The only operating supervised consumption sites in the U.S. are in New York.
  — Jon Michael Raasch Fox News, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Social media and general media consumption are like the wild, wild West these days.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• My stories have always been restless and centered on a few characters, which is good for this platform and type of consumption.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 May 2023
• The model and cookbook author told the Los Angeles Times last month that the shooting demands of the series and food consumption were no longer sustainable for her.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• The nation with the world’s highest wine consumption per capita is among the European countries grappling with a massive surplus of wine this year.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• The study also looked for disclosures about the hardware used to train and run a model, the software frameworks employed, and a project’s energy consumption.
  — WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
• Even occasional energy drink consumption—only one to three times a month—was linked with more sleep issues, the study found.
  — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 7 Mar. 2024
• And the government is going further to boost household consumption, which accounts for about 37% of China’s GDP.
  — Laura He, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Facebook is still the most popular social media platform for news consumption, with roughly three in 10 U.S. adults getting their news from the site.
  — C Mandler, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Now is the time to re-examine the decision to gut renewables in favor of more fossil fuel consumption.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
• In the thick of respiratory virus season, the products are likely seeing an uptick in consumption.
  — Amber Brenza, Health, 24 Jan. 2024
• The ease of consumption through drinks may appeal to those who seek the effects without wanting to smoke or use more traditional methods of consumption.
  — Joshua Adragna, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• The German people have been advised by a joy sucking group of foodstuff busybodies to reduce their sausage consumption to a single wurst.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
• But fear not: Hydration can be achieved beyond water consumption and with a diet of foods that nourish and moisturize from the inside out.
  — Joey Skladany, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024