Examples of using "Verbruiken" in a sentence and their english translations:
Lightbulbs consume electricity.
Machinery uses a lot of electricity.
Unfortunately, the calories expended by the mother seals
Gas cookers consume half the amount of energy as electric cookers.
Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.