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Example sentences for "eating"

Lexicographically close words:
eateth; eath; eathen; eather; eatin; eats; eau; eave; eaved; eaven
  1. The others had to be content with crossing themselves when they heard the bell for Terce or None, and even Sext was sparingly attended after the Prior instituted the eating of the mid-day meal in the fields on fine days.

  2. Only you don't want to go eating everything you see," Cass warned him.

  3. Throughout the conversation he went on eating the honey.

  4. He had so looked forward to eating that very large egg which the boy assured him was a hen's egg.

  5. On the spot once occupied by Joe's eating house now stands a large hotel built of stone, with a bathroom leading out of every bedroom.

  6. Chiromo saw the dog eating the skin, and killed him with his axe.

  7. Under one arm he hugged a huge calabash, from which he was eating honey with a stick.

  8. Eating was one of the things that Pedro did best.

  9. But it was not a conviction the fire-eating little Captain wanted just now.

  10. They were eating breakfast when the light on the horizon announced a new day on the way.

  11. Bout to-morrer evening we'll be eating hog-bosom on Uncle Sam.

  12. Them Injuns has been on their reservation for five years, peaceable, domesticated, and eating from the hand.

  13. Od, Sandie Scott, think ye it can be true that the English are eating ane another?

  14. They seldome or never make bread of their Indian corne, but seeth it whole like beanes, eating three or four cornes with a mouthfull of fish or flesh, sometimes eating meate first and cornes after, filling chinckes with their broth.

  15. It is my opinion that this disease proceeds only from eating excessively of salt food and vegetables, which heat the blood and corrupt the internal parts.

  16. There died during this month a sailor and our locksmith [319] of dysentery, so also many Indians from eating eels badly cooked, as I think.

  17. All were intent on eating supper of fried bacon, slapjacks, and coffee.

  18. Bentz and Wise went up the cañon a little way, and while eating fruit were suddenly fired on from the bushes by almost a dozen Indians.

  19. I felt comfortable as eating fat cow to think I hadn't cheated any one.

  20. I sets cross-legged like in camp, as easy as eating meat.

  21. After a rest of only seven minutes and without eating a meal, Moore started for Midway, and he made the round trip, two hundred and eighty miles, in fourteen hours and forty-six minutes.

  22. But the Injuns had scared the beaver so, I stays in my camp, eating my lariat.

  23. While eating he was asked what had so amused him during the afternoon.

  24. If it wasn't for billiards, I might be eating off silver plate.

  25. Wenceslas had laid down while eating the fruit.

  26. After eating the forbidden fruit the only way to immortality was to "eat of the tree of life.

  27. Now, was the first sin that eternally damned the whole human race a mere matter of eating from a forbidden tree?

  28. Men had outgrown the idea of "eating with Jehovah.

  29. The Englishmen in Kabul had to be exceedingly careful in eating fruit.

  30. I never heard of an attendant eating the food intended for a patient.

  31. He afterwards gave up alcohol and took to chloral eating and opium smoking.

  32. He sat on the ground and chattered away, eating grapes while I smoked and aired my Persian.

  33. The Afghans are very particular about eating their bread hot, they don't care to eat it cold unless they are on a journey.

  34. Oh, my beautiful stars, think of eating your first Jigger!

  35. For a whole week faithfully he was true to his grief, keeping his own company, eating out his heart, suffering as only that first deception can inflict sorrow.

  36. And when, five minutes later, my lord came in, the Baron was enjoying his chop, and I was eating my lord's.

  37. So she left me again, whilst I sat in the utter isolation and stillness, eating bread and drinking the wine, which was good.

  38. I was no longer happy in Switzerland, not even when I was eating great blackberries and looking down at the Lago Maggiore, at Locarno, lying by the lake; the terror of the callous, disintegrating process was too strong in me.

  39. His sex was functional, like eating and drinking.

  40. They laughed at my pretending to cut the slabs of polenta with a string: that rejoiced them all: it took them back to the Italian mezzo-giorno, the bells jangling in the campanile, the eating after the heavy work on the land.

  41. There is eating and drinking in the little house, the guitars are silent.

  42. The cavalry were all dismounted by the bridge-head, eating and drinking like business men.

  43. He had just come in; and he was eating bread and milk.

  44. So after two hours' rest, eating in a restaurant, wandering by the quay and through the market, and sitting on a seat by the lake, I found a steamer that would take me away.

  45. She began to talk again, eating a little of the sandwich, for she was tired, and needed all her strength.

  46. There he sat, eating his breakfast between the woman who had dominated him all his life, and the woman who fascinated him in the present, with ample opportunity to compare them with each other, and a determination not to do it.

  47. Kelley succeeded in surprising him while he was eating dinner at a Mexican road-house just this side of the border.

  48. Grouped about it were three men eating breakfast.

  49. Whenever the thought of eating humble pie to Luck came into his mind, the rage boiled in him.

  50. If he had had the gumption to understand the hints given by the letters Cullison might now be eating supper with his family at the hotel.

  51. Even though we were comfortable we knew that our situation was desperate and as we sat eating we canvassed our prospects thoroughly.

  52. As we sat around the campfire in the morning eating our breakfast, the captain made a suggestion.

  53. The fires were still burning everywhere and we could see the skirmish line of the main fire eating its way in irregular outline along the darkened plain.

  54. I'm tired of eating nothing but jerked venison.

  55. It was way back in Kansas where they came near eating us alive.

  56. The eating arrangements of these people are certainly very trying.

  57. He got through several mealie cobs (and large ones too) whilst I was eating half a one.

  58. From their feeding habits you will know that these beautiful birds are scavengers, eating things which, if left on the sea or shore, would make the water foul and the air impure.

  59. Like other children, eating when he was hungry gave him joy, and at times he made a game of it that was fun for them all.

  60. Then he whistled "Fee-bee" very clearly, and went to eating again, heeding the Farmer Boy no more than if he were not there at all.

  61. We are members of one family, sons of one Father, joint-heirs with one Lord, the poor Man who sat eating and drinking at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, and mixed freely in the joys and the sorrows of the poorest and meanest.

  62. Soldiers had taken possession of it and were cooking and eating their breakfasts.

  63. Further away under the trees, shadows in shadow, the horses were dimly seen eating their provender.

  64. A few moments later Chunk emerged from the cabin, with careless mien, eating a pone of hoecake.

  65. The two old people looked at each other, then stared at their niece, who, with hot face, maintained the pretence of eating her supper.

  66. No, not a magpie, A maggot that is eating up the earth!

  67. Mrs. Portheris begged us to begin; she said it was so cheerless eating by one's self, and made her feel quite greedy.

  68. After eating voraciously, he hid the remainder of his cake in the mortise of a beam beside the back chamber stairs.

  69. His temperance in eating and drinking was habitual.

  70. It may be said that the philosophers of the present day do not deem eating a good dinner "a task;" and it is pretty certain the mass of the people do not.

  71. They are baited and caught with a piece of meat tied to a string, but cannot be lifted to the surface till they are eating the meat, and then a dip-net is required to secure them.

  72. The writer, to make out his case, is forced to treat as medicine the salt which the herbivorous animals eat, and the sand and gravel which grain and nut-eating birds take into their gizzards to act as millstones to grind their grist.

  73. Eating is the one thing that engrosses the attention of all creatures, and the procuring of food has been a great means of education to all.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appetite; cannibal; carnivorous; chewing; commensal; consumption; devouring; dietetic; dieting; dining; eating; gluttonous; gluttony; grazing; gulp; herbivorous; hunger; ingestion; insectivorous; licking; munching; nibbling; nourishing; nutrition; nutritious; omnivorous; prandial; predacious; swallow; tasting; vegetarian; vegetarianism


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eating animals; eating birds; eating house; eating warbler