"consume" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If that means consuming a part of the natural environment, do it before someone else copies the idea and then move on to something else.
- We had also consumed a large part of our rations to keep warm.
- Their construction and improvement consumed a large part of the imperial treasury.
- Several studies suggest that bacteria has consumed a part of oil in the sea.
- An arsonist starts a fire which consumes a large part of the town.
- The pension payment will consume a large part of the budget necessitating reductions in other areas.
- Although the cell was large, we had evidently consumed a great part of the oxygen that it contained.
- "I fancy the ashes of them might even now be found in that oven which had already consumed a part."
- In addition, the cattle industry consumed a large part of the workforce in this region.
- Shopping for fabric, buttons and trim consumes a big part of the production time.
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