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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