"consume" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These termites are voracious feeders and will consume wood, cardboard and paper and sometimes even fabric.
- This is because of the large size of its colonies, and the termites' ability to consume wood at a rapid rate.
- The steamboats consumed much wood for fuel, and the river floodplain and banks became deforested.
- Kira turned to the table of contents, the brittle pages crackling beneath her touch, the sound like that of flames consuming dead wood.
- This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood.
- Behind her she could hear the walls collapse, could hear the roar of flames consuming wood.
- The larvae consume wood.
- The people he had known here would never have voluntarily consumed wood for any purpose.
- Various lignicolous fungi consume wood in various ways; for example, some attack the carbohydrates in wood, and some others decay lignin.
- Her voice shook like the torchlight; like flames consuming wood which had dried for decades.
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