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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The letter continued: Twitter is required to provide data and information that Mr. Musk requests in connection with the consummation of the transaction.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 6 June 2022
• Some of it is shockingly beautiful, an artistic consummation for Kerouac.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• One of the two Roald Dahl adaptations turns its kids into mice and back again for a conventionally happy ending that betrays the book’s darkness, while the other portrays permanent mousehood as a pretty good consummation after all.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024