Sentence examples for almost consumed from inspiring English sources

The park has been closed for more than a year now, and has almost consumed the development budget.

Just this summer, I put out a raccoon carcass and it was almost consumed by maggots and there was nothing left, no meat whatsoever, in three days.

Or, as Grayson Perry puts it, "not tainted with the hoo-ha and the celebrity glitz that, at the height of the YBA era, almost consumed the art".

He listens intently when I describe interviewing formidable fighters, such as Mike Tyson, who spoke lucidly about the fear that almost consumed them before a fight.

McDowell was almost consumed by the shoulder-height grass and when he took a whack at the ball, he sent a big fluffy clump flying.

The final evening, which was especially star studded, included the composer Alan Menken performing his own composition (lyrics by Glenn Slater), "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again?" a title that fairly summed up the spirit that almost consumed the evening.

They really think they have access, and they almost consume them".

Times were grim, at least off screen — the first opened in November of that year — but Chris Columbus's directorial touch was insistently light as Harry was initiated into a world alive with odd doings, strange creatures and the evil that would almost consume it.

However, they are more expensive per MByte than other high-capacity memory types, such as SDRAM, and they consume more board space per MByte than both SDRAM and FPGA on-chip memory, which almost consumes none.

I remember believing in it so much it would almost consume me".

The initial glucose concentration of about 3 g/L was almost entirely consumed after 3 days whereas L-lactate concentrations remained at an almost constant level throughout the 3 days production period.