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
  • In a lot of ways, Black Parade feels like the consummation of everything with this book.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 6 June 2023
  • The murder of Francis Dolarhyde (played by Richard Armitage) is the consummation in some ways.
    E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation.
    Jane Coaston, Vox, 23 Apr. 2018
  • 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 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
  • The following morning, the stained bed linen was displayed as proof of consummation.
    Brian Fagan, Quartzy, 4 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The journey ends with no consummation of his desire, no reclaiming of his home.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • 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
  • Everything leads to consummation, or at least an attempt at it.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • In the evening, the Democratic Presidential debate felt like a consummation of the inevitable.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • There were two gorgeous dresses and three hot consummations, plus a cliffhanger, several heart-to-hearts, and Brooke Shields getting attacked by a wolf on live TV.
    Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Milan Kundera once said that all great love stories begin and end outside of consummation.
    Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The confidential meeting of the lovers in the tussle of bodies at the Capulet shindig, the hesitant first touch of their fingers and, later, the urgent consummation — none of this is surprising.
    New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • His orange face the picture of postcoital consummation.
    John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • And now, the consummation of the administration’s long-running dialogue with the Japanese and the South Koreans over crafting a durable peace in the region.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • The search for consummation, for an ending, only seemed to create the necessity for beginning again.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • When Peipei refused to accept any solution but a consummation of her love, her grandfather had to summon Mr. Wu through a secretary.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • Contradictions live at the heart of Liz Phair's songwriting: the tensions between love and lust, flirtation and consummation, finely wrought emotions and pop-song grandeur.
    Maura Johnston, EW.com, 3 June 2021
  • Torgow is now an adviser to Huntington until the third anniversary of the merger's consummation in 2024.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2021
  • Twitter said in a securities filing Monday that the nine members of its former board are no longer directors as of the consummation of the $44 billion merger, which closed last Thursday after six months of hand-wringing over the deal’s fate.
    Dean Seal, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • This path starts with a change of consummation and scenery, literally and figuratively.
    Chántelle Adanna, Essence, 22 Dec. 2023
  • His focus on children also became a philosophical overview of the cycle of life—from desire, consummation, and procreation to death.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019

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