Each device consumes energy at a different rate, and adds to the total amount of energy used.

Indeed the amount of "fresh water" is being consumed at an alarming rate.

She learns that the Greenflies are now consuming whole star systems at a massive rate.

The pre-1914 arms race was consuming increasingly larger portions of national budgets at an unsustainable rate.

But the oil is consumed at a rate that grows by 5 percent each year.

She looked down the table and noted that the wine was being consumed at a much more rapid rate than the food.

This is because higher mass stars consume their nuclear fuel at a more rapid rate.

More trees were falling as the flame consumed the wood at a fantastic rate.

The unnatural fire was consuming the barricade at an alarming rate.

But today it is in the forefront of Connecticut's recovery, with space being consumed at an accelerating rate.