eat up

Example Sentences

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AI chips are the most precious commodity at any leading research lab, and at OpenAI, Sora was eating up far too many of them.

From The Wall Street Journal

That will eat up a lot of operating cash flow.

From Barron's

A newly minted dentist earns around $150,000 or more, but student loans eat up a lot of their take-home pay, especially in the early years.

From The Wall Street Journal

Higher gas prices will particularly squeeze lower- and middle-income Americans by eating up some of their extra cash.

From MarketWatch

Now those plans are on hold as her budget is eaten up buying petrol to power up generators to run her sewing machines after fuel prices jumped about 20 percent in Africa's most populous country.

From Barron's