Sentence examples for because it ate up from inspiring English sources

A few years back, it disbanded its 10-person police department in part because it ate up more than half of the city's entire budget.

The Rangers refused to reschedule the game for two days later, because it ate up a travel day.

In his book A Reporter's Life, Cronkite writes that Richard Salant, the highly respected president of CBS News, didn't like the line because it ate up four seconds.

Mr. Cary's encounter with embezzlement throws light on a crime that is the nightmare of every entrepreneur, and not just because it eats up precious capital.

This is usually turned off because it eats up FPS unless your computer can handle it.

The lawmakers said they would not offer the bill as a piece of standalone legislation because it would eat up a week of the Senate's dwindling time.

And it's done very well — Steam now has over 70% of the digital game distribution market, and some retail stores have gone as far as banning games that install Steam because it's eating up so much of their business.

"Don't let this game cause us to lose two or three more because it eats our pen up".

Strange doesn't seem to be such a jerk as he is shown to be in Steve Ditko's comics prior to his transformation into the future Sorcerer Supreme – perhaps because Downey Jr already ate up all the available "arrogant bore becomes saviour of the Earth" storylines.

Compassion is scarce when I make sure someone knows I feel put out after reluctantly agreeing to help because seriously, it is eating up my only free time this week to watch all my DVRed shows.

"Outsourcing the stuff you don't like to do or that's particularly time consuming is very dangerous, because it can quickly eat up more or your time and money than doing it yourself," says Jeff Huckaby, a managing partner at RackAid, a website hosting and security company in Jacksonville, Fla., that serves lots of small business.