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adjective

consuming

very strong; urgently felt

In a sentence

Six example sentences with consuming, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her consuming curiosity about the lighthouse keeper fills the novel, crowding out every other thread the author begins.

    Literature

  • The director describes a consuming need to finish the film, working eighteen-hour days and sleeping on the studio floor.

    Movies

  • A consuming interest in beetles led the young naturalist to fill her bedroom with labelled jars and hand-drawn charts.

    Science

  • Her consuming obsession with blue kept her in the studio until dawn, mixing pigments nobody would ever see in daylight.

    Art

  • The point guard's consuming desire to win a title kept him in the gym at midnight through his thirty-fifth year.

    Basketball

  • The founder's consuming drive to launch before the rival company meant the team slept in the office for a month.

    Startups

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