How to Use consumption in a Sentence

consumption

noun
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  • The jet's high fuel consumption makes it expensive to operate.
  • Now!, a group that advocates for sites for safe consumption of drugs in the state.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • And all of this consumption seems to be doing something to our health.
    — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Susanne Rust tracked her plastic consumption for a week and shared the results with the world.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • That hasn’t been the case, however, with gasoline consumption down 9% over the last year.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Ours is a friendship forged through and powered by the consumption of Chinese food.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Girls are more available for consumption, and girls have more available to them.
    — Zoe Yu, Longreads, 28 May 2024
  • So [the awareness] is very widespread, but at the same time, meat consumption keeps going up.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • Well, one thing to note is the import content of consumption for rich people is quite low.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The drop in supply equates to about a month of food consumption for Kenya and Somalia combined.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • About 20% of the world’s daily consumption of oil passes through it every day.
    — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s the number of milligrams at which toxic effects of caffeine, like seizures, can occur (at least in the case of rapid consumption), the FDA warns.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 10 Mar. 2023
  • After the games, parties, and heavy food consumption, visitors had plenty of places to choose from to lay their heads.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 June 2024
  • China’s consumption of ejiao has increased with the country’s wealth.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The chip’s label had a warning saying the product was only for adult consumption.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 8 May 2024
  • There has never before been such a long-lasting drop in household consumption in the postwar era.
    — Richard Katz, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • It’s made with PU leather instead of real leather, which requires large consumption of land and water to produce.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Some are having to reduce water consumption by up to 45%.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 6 July 2024
  • Along with new warning labels, the surgeon general’s report recommends reassessing the guideline limits for alcohol consumption to account for cancer risk.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Higher peak power consumption doesn't necessarily mean that these cards will always draw more power during actual gaming than their 40-series counterparts.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025

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