"consume" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead of consuming material that is then converted into energy, the aliens absorb it directly from sunlight.
- The energy-generating fission zone steadily advances through the core, effectively consuming fertile material in front of it and leaving spent fuel behind.
- Because all the records emphasize the speed with which Thread consumes organic material.
- Worms excavate burrows by consuming material or, preferably, pushing it away.
- Many are saprotrophic, and obtain energy by consuming organic material produced by other organisms.
- In addition to consuming trees, more intense wildfires tend to produce substantial amounts of smoke by consuming flammable material located on the ground.
- They can consume detrital material, diatoms, invertebrates, small fry and vegetation ranging from macroalgae to rooted plants.
- At depths where no primary production occurs, zooplankton and bacterioplankton instead consume organic material sinking from more productive surface waters above.
- It is thought that humans can contract the disease by consuming material from animals infected with the bovine form of the disease.
- Thread is described in this series as an agent that consumes organic material at a voracious rate, including crops, animals, and any humans in its path.
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