A Robinson Crusoe working on his island and valuing future goods relatively to present goods higher than before, consumes less; or, valuing them lower, consumes more.
One saves and adds to wealth, the otherconsumes it.
Love does to women what the sun does to flowers: it colours them, embellishes them, makes them look radiant and beautiful; but when it is too ardent it consumes and withers them.
It is an outflowing torrent of Good which streams through all heavenly spirits; it is a Flame of Fire that consumes all in the One; it is also the Spark of transcendence latent in man's soul.
There takes place that encounter of the spirit, that is to say of measureless love, whichconsumes and transforms our spirit with all its works; drawing us with itself towards the Unity, where we taste beatitude and rest.
If the fire blazes up and consumes the food, it is a good sign; it proves that the ghost is present and that he is blowing up the flame.
As usual, the deityconsumes only the soul of the offering; the bearer eats the material substance.
One eats much, and its fellow consumes but little; yet the small feeder in most cases thrives the best even where neither is stinted.
The first signs perceptible which denote recovery are these:--The provender the beast consumes is evidently not thrown away.
The same fire consumes them, the same zeal devours them, thirst for our salvation.
We feel an insatiable need, which stirs the depths of our being, which consumes us, and when we yield to it, we inevitably find Thee!
Every dwelling, rich or poor, consumes a certain amount of this oil nightly for lighting.
It is said that the food passes through the body of a locust as fast as it eats, and that its natural death is due either to want of nourishment, or to a small worm which forms in the body and consumes it.
Neath which against the blows of Fate and Death, Not mere deliverance but great victory is; Relief from the blind ardour which consumes Vain mortals here below!
The condemnation of life is that a man consumes more than he produces, taking out of society's granary that which other hands have put in.
The seamstress toiling in the attic stitches hope in with each thread, and dreams of some knight coming to lift her out of poverty, and her reverie mocks and consumes her woe.
A wondrous sweet Boy then it was, see now Time that consumes us, shoots him up still sweeter.
There's no such matter, The woman was not born to so much blessedness, He has no heat: study consumes his oyl, Master.
Perhaps I talked too much, but it is only in words that the pain whichconsumes my vitals finds a vent.
In the bloom of life the black veil of widowhood encircles me; by it I show to men a mourning which I feel not, and conceal that which consumes me.
He also consumes a terrible mixture sold him by white traders, called indiscriminately brandy, gin or whisky, yet an intoxicated Chinaman is the rarest of rare sights.
He consumes his garden products about half cooked in an American culinary point of view, merely wilting them by an immersion in boiling water.
The climate, and the insane effort to garrison the whole country, consumes our troops, and we make no progress.
All of these officers have certain reports to make also, which consumes much of their time.
One who, or that which, cremmates or consumesto ashes.
The United States normally smelts and consumes all its large production of zinc ores and does not enter foreign markets to any extent.
The United States produces a small fraction of 1 per cent of the world's tin, and consumes a third to a half of the total.
The balance of the world's silver consumption is widely distributed among the countries of Europe and South America and the United States (which consumes about one-tenth of the total).
The United States normallyconsumes about one-third of the world's antimony.
It may be noted that, although this country normally consumes about one-fourth of the Chilean product, American interests commercially control less than one-twentieth of the output.
The United States normally produces nearly two-thirds of the world's copper andconsumes only about one-third.
It has been computed that a bird during the first few weeks of its life consumes nearly one and one half times its weight of insects daily.
This is small compared with the number of insects, yet as each bird consumes hundreds of insects every day, the latter are prevented from becoming the scourge they would be but for their feathered enemies.
But the fugitive knows no law; he wards off death only, And both quickly and recklessly all that he meets with, consumes he.
God is the world and transcends it; is the evil and the good which conquers and consumes that evil.
There is hence always to be found a chief and father among the gods who, as mankind gain in wisdom and in material power, consumes his mates and his children like Kronos or Jahweh, inherits their attributes and performs their functions.
False genius, ardent and impotent imagination, consumes itself in sterile dreams and produces nothing, at least nothing great.
The fever raged through every vein And burnt him with its inward pain: So when in woods the flames leap free The fire within consumes the tree.
As for my son I mourn and yearn, The quenchless flames of anguish burn And kill me with the pain, As in the summer’s noontide blaze The glorious Day-God with his rays Consumes the parching plain.
One only pang consumesmy breast: That his own lips have not expressed His will, nor made his longing known That Bharat should ascend the throne.
One of them works from morning till night, from one year's end to another; and if he consumes all which he has gained, even by superior energy, he remains poor.
The favorites of Louis XIII resemble that woman; his attachment devours like this fire, which dazzles and consumes her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consumes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
