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Definition of consuming in English: consumingadjective kənˈsjuːmɪŋkənˈsumɪŋ (of a feeling) completely filling one's mind and attention; absorbing. Example sentencesExamples - As such, the film is a cross cultural comparison of consuming intimacy and living intimacy.
- The matrimonial proceedings had been all consuming for Ms. Miller and had prevented her from considering a return to the workforce.
- In those days, the hate was all consuming, he recalls.
- This continued study of Los Lunas is open ended, and can be a consuming addiction resulting in more questions than answers.
- They need to assure themselves of a stable existence, and their drive for material security can become all consuming.
- Sylvia told me that her previous feelings for Tom were so consuming that she lost herself to them.
- De Valera need never again appeal to America for assistance in his mad ambition to satisfy his consuming vanity.
- yay!) and I both have very consuming jobs that we're passionate about and that often have opposite schedules.
- So consuming that even in the dark hours it defines us.
- In my former life grace was a mystery limited to regeneration, now it's simply amazing and all consuming.
- A more novel sentiment is my lack of consuming gloom at the prospect of the Tories back in power.
- Bizarre behaviour, considering they had only ever known me as a man with a consuming sense of mission.
- As a child, little secrets can seem like all consuming mountains.
- It is true that I made the first advances; but then you fed the consuming fire.
Synonyms absorbing, compelling, preoccupying, engrossing, all-consuming, compulsive, besetting
Derivativesadverb Most of my time was spent out in the open without shelter, either getting rained on, or being broiled like an Arcturian lobster under the wretchedly dry and consumingly vast summer sun of the awesomely desert planet Tory's war zones. Example sentencesExamples - Maria Shivute got so consumingly overwhelmed by the announcement that during that walking moment, which lasted no longer than one minute, she slipped into the world of her own, which can be likened to a coma.
- He says Clinton did make terrorism a top priority, and it's clear that Clinton's national security cabinet was deeply, even consumingly, engaged in the problem.
Definition of consuming in US English: consumingadjectivekənˈso͞omiNGkənˈsumɪŋ (of a feeling) completely filling one's mind and attention; absorbing. Example sentencesExamples - This continued study of Los Lunas is open ended, and can be a consuming addiction resulting in more questions than answers.
- Bizarre behaviour, considering they had only ever known me as a man with a consuming sense of mission.
- De Valera need never again appeal to America for assistance in his mad ambition to satisfy his consuming vanity.
- As a child, little secrets can seem like all consuming mountains.
- They need to assure themselves of a stable existence, and their drive for material security can become all consuming.
- In my former life grace was a mystery limited to regeneration, now it's simply amazing and all consuming.
- Sylvia told me that her previous feelings for Tom were so consuming that she lost herself to them.
- So consuming that even in the dark hours it defines us.
- The matrimonial proceedings had been all consuming for Ms. Miller and had prevented her from considering a return to the workforce.
- In those days, the hate was all consuming, he recalls.
- yay!) and I both have very consuming jobs that we're passionate about and that often have opposite schedules.
- It is true that I made the first advances; but then you fed the consuming fire.
- A more novel sentiment is my lack of consuming gloom at the prospect of the Tories back in power.
- As such, the film is a cross cultural comparison of consuming intimacy and living intimacy.
Synonyms absorbing, compelling, preoccupying, engrossing, all-consuming, compulsive, besetting
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