adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consuming interest (= a very strong feeling of interest )
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Roland had a consuming interest in cricket.
a consuming passion (= a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in )
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The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
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For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
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His autograph ritual and travel are his consuming interests .
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By slow degrees, the world of the bloodstock sales lost the best part of its consuming interest for Dada.
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Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.
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Though he didn't realise it at the time, cricket was his life and consuming interest .
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When Bernice glanced over her shoulder, he averted his eyes and took a consuming interest in the door hinges.
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Full of youthful optimism and his consuming interest in debt, he continued reading and applying for jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was possessed by a consuming rage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic.
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Even before his Stockport vision had collapsed, Oldknow had begun a consuming preoccupation with this largely rural community.
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His autograph ritual and travel are his consuming interests.
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I think I understood subconsciously that I required a grand consuming passion in life.
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Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.
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The arms of the dead warrior seemed to flex, moved by heat, twisted by the consuming flame.
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Yet they are often inhibited from doing so by the structure of vertical integration imposed by resource-seeking investors from the consuming markets.