"consume" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The agency is also investigating ways to lighten the cost of lofting its fleet of four shuttles, which consume billions of dollars every year.
- The program employed 10,000 or more scientists and other workers and consumed billions of dollars in the 1980's, those sources indicate.
- But Rover has consumed billions of dollars and brought the German carmaker a seemingly endless stream of problems.
- The Empire girded itself for a bloodbath that might consume tens of billions.
- It consumed billions of dollars.
- It consumed billions of surplus dollars, and it kept everybody working hard, paying their taxes, obedient, and willing to make sacrifices.
- They said it consumed billions of dollars in the 1980's, when Iraq was struggling for survival in a war with Iran.
- But, with the cost of reunification still consuming billions and with other economic burdens, few Germans believe that it is still the case.
- Americans consume billions of pounds of french fries annually, along with chicken nuggets, onion rings, fish and other fried foods.
- The aftermath of four violent conflicts has consumed billions of taxpayers' dollars in aid.
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