consummation

Example Sentences

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Strangely, it tells the history of the earth in reverse, beginning in the present, so humanity isn’t the consummation of evolution, but instead casts its shadow backward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

“The fact,” it said, “that an unforeseeable accident prevented the prompt consummation of the sentence cannot, it seems to us, add an element of cruelty to a subsequent execution.”

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

"Unwinding the merger after consummation is highly problematic and disfavored, making divestiture post-consummation significantly more difficult."

From Reuters • May 11, 2023

A whole love story has unfolded in the slicing of the meat and the splicing of the film, a courtship and consummation in the blink of an eye.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley