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Example sentences for "feed"

Lexicographically close words:
feebleminded; feebleness; feebler; feeblest; feebly; feedback; feede; feeder; feeders; feedes
  1. The men were allowed an hour's rest to feed their horses and prepare their dinners.

  2. The young woman ran, breathless with joy, to fetch her attire, while the man went out to feed his oxen.

  3. The feed of the bosses won't cost us a cent," remarked young Sanford.

  4. I am for enabling it to clothe itself well, feed itself well, and educate itself.

  5. She was impressed with a strong and uncontrollable feeling that her fate was predestined to a dark course and an early end; and she drew from all things around her something to feed the pensive character of her thoughts.

  6. I put 'em in my pocket at the feed this afternoon," replied Bob, taking the sandwiches out and passing them to the tramp, whose boat was now alongside.

  7. He watched the feed cups on the cylinders and saw that they were working properly.

  8. At the stations especially one might feed on this sight in all its variations to satiety.

  9. Worms were beginning to generate in this mass and to feed on them.

  10. The very children in the streets ape the air of soldiers, carry little flags, and wear cockades as they strut in the highways; and mothers and fathers feed the fever by dressing them up as Zouaves or Chasseurs.

  11. The oil feed lines of the right outboard engine were split and parted in three different spots.

  12. It's easy to give your engine a bad mixture feed and make the exhaust smoke.

  13. And ha' we no fields enow for our cattle to graze in, and canna we raise corn to feed them witha'?

  14. After the bath, let him feed and then sleep.

  15. Feed three or four times a day, as much as the child will willingly drink.

  16. Nor do I forget that we feed upon His broken body and His shed blood, not by intellect, not by reason, not by culture, not by learning, but by faith.

  17. For two-thirds of the year the mountaineers feed on the acorn, which they dry, bruise, and afterwards grind and make into a kind of bread, which may be stored up for a long period.

  18. They feed on the fruit of a species of stunted oak, which grows at the bottom of the sea, and produces very large acorns.

  19. For the milk of the cattle which feed there does not yield any whey, and they are obliged to mix it with large quantities of water when they make cheese on account of its richness.

  20. He would sit by the hour together in her room, and give her her medicine, and feed her when she grew too weak to feed herself, and sit up at night with her.

  21. Yes, he is a great deal too fat: they feed him up so.

  22. Timothy don't pay-- Can't cattle feed on anything but hay?

  23. But know, while Cassius hath one drop of blood To feed this worthless body that you see, What reck I death to do so many good?

  24. Then rest we here awhile in our unrest, And feed our sorrows with some inward sighs; For deepest cares break never into tears.

  25. Come, wrathful furies, with your ebon locks, And feed yourselves with mine enflamed blood!

  26. Thy bravest captains, whose courageous hearts (Joined with the right) did reinforce our hopes, Now murder'd lie for fowl to feed upon.

  27. Wiskain set about blowing upon the earth with renewed ardour, and directed the crow to make a second tour round it, cautioning him, at the same time, not to feed upon any carcass that he might see on the way.

  28. While I was taking advantage of a temporary halt, to feed and water my pony, Lieutenant MacNaghten of the 16th Lancers pointed them out to me, and we watched them through our glasses.

  29. He is frequently parsimonious, and always thrifty, and does not generally feed himself as well as the Pathan.

  30. While this sphynx is still a caterpillar, a dipterous tachinaria takes possession of it to feed her young ones.

  31. The beast of prey kills its victim in order to feed upon his flesh, the parasite does not kill; on the contrary he profits by all the advantages enjoyed by the host on whom he thrusts his presence.

  32. Those creatures which merit the name of parasites feed at the expense of a neighbour, either establishing themselves voluntarily in his xix organs, or quitting him after each meal, like the leech or the flea.

  33. If we are to believe Roussel de Vauzeme, they feed on the skin itself of the whale, the remains of which, it is said, are found in their stomach.

  34. We feed some with our blood and our flesh; there are some which lodge on the surface of our skin, others in the interior of our organs; some prefer to establish themselves on children, others on adults.

  35. But what carnivore can habitually feed on the cheiroptera?

  36. Therefore, since the molluscs live only on vegetable substances, while the Ostracotheres feed entirely on animal matter, Mons.

  37. As their pace was leisurely, I determined to follow them until I came again within range, as I was sure that they would stop and feed in a short time.

  38. The wildest beast that roams our waste places lairs in the frozen north or the frozen south within a government reserve, where the curious may view him and feed him bread crusts from the hand with perfect impunity.

  39. With part of this money he bought a pig and gave it to his father to feed up.

  40. Each morning I toss with that horse whether he shall have his feed of oats or I have my glass of whisky, and would your honour credit it, the horse has lost these ten days past.

  41. Now this island reared about forty milch cows, besides young cattle and sheep, and at the period when might meant right in Ireland the inhabitants, having some surplus stock, took possession of another island to feed them on.

  42. Lord Derby subsequently thanked him, but said he preferred the gout, and I have no doubt that that horse, had he been able to give tongue, would have been an ardent upholder of teetotalism when it ensured him a feed of oats.

  43. Of course, it suited the national thrift, particularly congenial to Bogue, to feed us meanly, but we did not relish her parsimonious economies.

  44. So Kate had nothing to feed her heart upon but an occasional grave "Good morning," or a meeting of eyes that were instantly wrenched apart.

  45. His horse was accommodated where it might have the necessary rest and feed of corn; and Charlie himself, a dashing fellow, grew gracious with the landlady, a buxom quean, who used all the influence in her power to induce him to stop all night.

  46. No inclosures, no roads, almost no tillage; it seemed a land which a patriarch would have chosen to feed his flocks and herds.

  47. Tom-cats of the fireside," said David, "who are proud of what fat mice their wives feed them on.

  48. She received in silence the feed basket he held out to her, and watched him as he kneeled, busily piling up the last of the fagots.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; allay; appease; assuage; bank; banquet; barley; bed; board; bran; bread; break; breed; bridle; brush; burn; cater; cherish; chop; coal; coddle; comestibles; corn; cosset; countenance; cradle; cultivate; culture; curry; deliver; detonate; diet; dine; drench; eat; encourage; ensilage; entertain; entertainment; explode; fare; farm; fatten; feast; feed; fertilize; fire; fodder; fondle; food; forage; fuel; fulminate; furnish; gas; gentle; give; grain; grass; gratify; graze; groom; grow; grub; hand; handle; harness; hatch; hay; hitch; hunger; ignite; inflame; invite; keep; kindle; light; litter; manage; mash; meal; meat; mess; milk; mother; nourish; nurse; nurture; oats; oil; pamper; partake; pasturage; pasture; provender; provide; provision; quench; raise; ranch; rear; refection; refreshment; regale; rekindle; relish; run; saddle; sate; satiate; satisfy; savor; scoff; scratch; sell; silage; slake; slops; spread; straw; suckle; supply; sustain; swill; table; take; tame; taste; tend; torch; train; transfer; treat; tuck; viands; victuals; water; wheat; yoke


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feed the; feed them; feed upon; feed water; feeding them; feeds upon