Getting down

Usage examples of consuming.

Some new mothers describe the powerfully consuming connection to their babies as bordering on the obsessional.

On the other hand he was not sure how much pleasure she had derived from this consuming, backbreaking endeavor.

He spread out beneath her, as frightened as she by the raging inferno that was consuming miles of brushland at unbelievable speed.

Joan never met, as a woman with a consuming passion for the chastest concubinal fidelity, whose fate it was to be continually falling into the hands of licentious foes and suffering the worst extremities of rapine.

News bulletins show fires consuming the Ford engine works at Dagenham, less than two miles off across the river, and he has run out of alternatives.

He might not have even really realized it was me, even though it was highly unlikely that any other family but mine in Dixieland would be consuming sushi.

It was unkillable: a bullet just passed through it, and an explosion would just scatter it and create a bunch of small doughballs, which would each then immediately roll off in different directions, consuming and growing.

Staring at the hungry flames that were consuming the ruins of the garage, that firstcomer had seen a long, streaky shadow along the ground beside him - a weird, mysterious blot that swayed with the flicker of the roaring flames.

You can eat them by themselves as a snack or meal, but if you add in some fruits or vegetables you may wind up consuming too many carbohydrates, which can send you out of the Zone.

She repeated the phrase to herself several times in Igbo, but Consuming Food never struck her as a reasonable name for someone, nor even as remotely funny.

And it sickened her to realize the irritation she felt at the resources the Igbo girl was so uselessly consuming.

Father Lynch and Father Lesches shuddered when they heard which particular passage had survived the consuming flames.

Time in his glass globe observatory, Meridion stared in dismay at the people he had changed history to bring to this place in the hope that they would avert the fiery death that was now consuming what was left of the Earth.

Future, hanging between the threads of Time in his glass globe observatory, Meridion stared in dismay at the people he had changed history to bring to this place in the hope that they would avert the fiery death that was now consuming what was left of the Earth.

Although vegetarians do derive health benefits from an increased consumption of vegetables and fruit, they are making grave health mistakes by not consuming enough protein and monounsaturated fat.