How to Use consummation in a Sentence

consummation

noun
  • But in many species, the actual consummation that all that courtship leads up to does not turn out to be a blissful union.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2010
  • Everything leads to consummation, or at least an attempt at it.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 23 Apr. 2018
  • What’s 20 years of waiting for consummation, among friends?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The journey ends with no consummation of his desire, no reclaiming of his home.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • The elder Fink died shortly after the consummation of that deal.
    — Zach Everson, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In a lot of ways, Black Parade feels like the consummation of everything with this book.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 6 June 2023
  • For both of these creatures, consuming and consummation is a sacred pleasure — and such things are worth waiting for.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Milan Kundera once said that all great love stories begin and end outside of consummation.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The garter and bouquet tosses stem from the practice of whisking newlyweds straight from the altar to the consummation bed.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Comcast appeared to pour cold water on the main impediment to consummation of the new agreements.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 July 2024
  • The flirtation reaches a consummation when a bomb blows up at Ekklesia, killing someone who wasn’t supposed to be there at the time.
    — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • Is the entire country suffering from a Freudian desire to relive the consummation of high-school prom?
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The two expanded their tie-up in March, likely setting the stage for this week’s M&A consummation.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The search for consummation, for an ending, only seemed to create the necessity for beginning again.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The murder of Francis Dolarhyde (played by Richard Armitage) is the consummation in some ways.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Yet each of them represents an attempt to visualize the space that is both an obstacle to and a condition of love’s consummation.
    — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • This path starts with a change of consummation and scenery, literally and figuratively.
    — Chántelle Adanna, Essence, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Many of Grande’s songs are about self-actualization, and the unashamed consummation of certain lustful desires.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
  • Fascism relies on this kind of tunnel vision, this narrowing of sight to the present and the consummation of immediate desires or demands.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Variable rates may increase after consummation.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 26 June 2026
  • Variable rates may increase after consummation.
    — Evan Zimmer, CNBC, 17 June 2026
  • Variable rates may increase after consummation.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Variable rates may increase after consummation.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Eros and Villains Milan Kundera once said that all great love stories begin and end outside of consummation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 May 2022
  • Some of it is shockingly beautiful, an artistic consummation for Kerouac.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Each unit consists of one share of common stock, one full warrant and one right to receive one-fifth of one share of common stock upon the consummation of an initial business combination.
    — Chris Eggertsen, Billboard, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After the flirtation and its consummation, David beats a hasty (and unsurprising) retreat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One way to think about January 6th is as the consummation, in real time, of a tumultuous shift between two distinct eras of conservatism.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022
  • In the evening, the Democratic Presidential debate felt like a consummation of the inevitable.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020

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