consumption

In a sentence

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

• Doctors tracked the patient's consumption of solid food after surgery, noting how many spoonfuls she managed at each meal.

  Medicine

• The team's dietitian logged every athlete's consumption at breakfast, from oatmeal to eggs, before the morning training block.

  Fitness

• Village festivals ended with the consumption of an entire roasted lamb, eaten by hand at long wooden tables.

  Cooking

• The biologists weighed each caterpillar before and after its consumption of a single leaf to measure how fast it grew.

  Science

• Researchers found that consumption of snacks rose sharply when the bowl sat within arm's reach of the desk.

  Psychology

• A single blue whale's daily consumption of krill can reach several tons, which is why the feeding grounds matter so much.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

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