You need to consume a lot more calories than you normally do each day if you want to gain weight.
The fire consumed the house within minutes.
A bat needs to consume many times its own weight in insects every day.
Our new washing machine consumes about half the
electricity of our old model.
The government needs to pass new regulations to protect consumers from dishonest salesmen.
We cannot really reduce the destruction of our environment unless we change our philosophy of consumerism in this society.
Our consumerist society is very
wasteful in terms of using fossil fuels.
Anne has a consuming interest in spiritual self-discovery.
The average daily consumption of salt in this country is much higher than recommended.
Excessive consumption of fat can lead to heart trouble.
Manufacturers have a
responsibility to make sure their products are safe for consumer use, and this often includes testing products on animals.
Collisions between galaxies trigger star formation and drive the galaxies to consume their gas and dust, creating new stars.
The stars in our sky are constantly changing and evolving as they consume their fuels.
Author John Updike once said that a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Antisthenes once observed that as iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Mikhail Gorbachev once suggested that America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
John McKay once observed that nobody becomes great without self-doubt. But you can't let it consume you.
An adult gray whale consumes about 1,100 kilograms of food per day.
The average woman consumes about two and a half kilograms of lipstick in her lifetime.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
Insects consume 10% of the world's food supply every year.
About 14 percent of the world's protein consumption comes from fish.
The blue whale, the world's largest animal, needs to consume a million-and-a-half-calorie diet every day.
The sun's energy production each second is enough to supply the electrical needs of the United States for 50 million years at the current rate of consumption.
Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.
Moderate alcohol consumption is defined as no more than 2 drinks a day for men, and no more than 1 drink a day for women.
Forty percent of all the oil consumed in the United States is used to power passenger vehicles.
The most commonly consumed drug in North America is caffeine.
It is essential to develop alternative energy sources before all our natural resources are consumed.
The biggest consumer of tobacco products worldwide is China, where 60 percent of men smoke.
Less than 10% of what consumers pay for coffee actually reaches the farmer who grows the beans.
The people of Argentina are well known for their high consumption of beef.
Mankind's consumption of the Earth's natural resources is proceeding at a phenomenal and alarming rate.