Consuming [adjective]

“Care had to be taken to not seize legislative communications that were privileged by law while searching for evidence of this crime, so it was a slightly more cumbersome and time consuming process,” Miovas said.

Look beyond the phenomena of uplifted mountain-masses, deep-scooped ocean basins, forest-laying tempests and land-consuming waves.

In Scotland we also missed much, but very little that we could have reached without consuming considerably more time.

And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.

It was rather his consuming of vitality and lack of sleep that seemed to be wearing him down before their eyes.

Five hundred wigwams were burning within the same narrow compass—consuming alike the bodies of the wounded and the dead.

Then a consuming anger flared in him,—anger against the past by which he was still shackled.

That I've a consuming passion for you and that it's impossible.

Dunham, left alone with Edna, asked the question which was consuming him.

The action of fire in consuming fuel, and the action of chemicals in consuming metals, are similar actions.