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How do you use Eat in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like consume or ingest, plus the exact meaning.

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Eat in a sentence

Eat meaning

  1. To ingest; to be ingested.
  2. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

Synonyms of Eat

consume ingest take in take have eat up wipe out run through exhaust deplete use up feed eat out eat in spend

Using Eat

  • The main meaning on this page is: To ingest; to be ingested. | To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. | To ingest; to be ingested.
  • Useful related words include: consume, ingest, take in, take.
  • In the example corpus, eat often appears in combinations such as: to eat, eat and, and eat.

Context around Eat

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 15 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Eat

  • In this selection, "eat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, opossums, skunks, snakes, ticks, yellow and mice stand out and add context to how "eat" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and i eat when i and are happy eat when they. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "eat" sits close to words such as motion, novel and goods, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with eat

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Polar bears only eat meat, so they'll eat anything. (10 words)

They’d eat a wolf, they’d eat each other. (10 words)

Eat the right food, eat at the right time, and eat the local foods. (14 words)

Koenig notes that it was about 10 years ago that you started seeing the promotion of the Eat Ze Bugz nonsense at the UN, and since then, you’ve had a whole bunch of high-profile leftists getting involved in various commercial iterations of Eat Ze Bugz. (47 words)

Understanding the link between food preferences and identity can help us to better understand why people eat what they eat, and a better awareness of the cultural dimensions of food choices can improve strategies to get people to eat healthier. (40 words)

Sushi is generally safe to eat, but some bacteria in sushi, sashimi and cold-smoked fish products can pose a risk to people who eat such foods frequently, especially people with weak immune systems, children and the elderly. (38 words)

Are we going to eat breakfast or are we going to eat lunch today? (14 words)

They are also found in the microscopic algae that brine shrimp eat (which is why shrimp turn pink when you cook them) and as flamingos eat the algae and brine shrimp, they also turn flamingos’ feathers pink! (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

I eat when I am lonely, I eat when I am sad, I eat when I am anxious and I eat when I am stressed.

Other “unwelcome” creatures perform their own useful services: Opossums eat ticks, skunks eat yellow jackets, snakes eat mice, etc. Harry them not.

Eat the right food, eat at the right time, and eat the local foods.

I know some don’t understand how someone can eat when they are happy, eat when they are sad or even eat when they are mad.

Understanding the link between food preferences and identity can help us to better understand why people eat what they eat, and a better awareness of the cultural dimensions of food choices can improve strategies to get people to eat healthier.

A lot of people take it out of context – it means if you’re hungry, you eat – and that’s not it, because sometimes we eat for self care, we’re not hungry.

Are we going to eat breakfast or are we going to eat lunch today?

At the same time, I knew that I was asking the doctor what to eat and what not to eat, I was also careful.

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Because he’s not used to hunting he will bin dive, he will eat cat food that has been left out, if there’s any hedgehog food he will eat that.

Diet-wise she follows an 80:20 approach where you eat healthy 80 per cent of the time, and the other 20 per cent you eat whatever you want.

It has been said to be a good way to 'turbo-charge' weight loss and it does not matter too much what you eat - just when you decide to eat it.

It works different ways with different people, some people can't eat, some people have to eat a lot.

Koenig notes that it was about 10 years ago that you started seeing the promotion of the Eat Ze Bugz nonsense at the UN, and since then, you’ve had a whole bunch of high-profile leftists getting involved in various commercial iterations of Eat Ze Bugz.

One can demolish a piece in less than 30 seconds, and as the popular tagline goes, no one can eat just one: you buy them in multiples of five, and eat them in multiples of five.

Polar bears only eat meat, so they'll eat anything.

Sushi is generally safe to eat, but some bacteria in sushi, sashimi and cold-smoked fish products can pose a risk to people who eat such foods frequently, especially people with weak immune systems, children and the elderly.

Tesco customers are being urged not to eat and instead to return various pastry products as they may be unsafe to eat.

The Picky Eater’s dilemma began with the starters: He wouldn’t eat cheese; he would only eat chicken or fish; he couldn’t have dressing on salad; and there could be no butter and no soy.

They are also found in the microscopic algae that brine shrimp eat (which is why shrimp turn pink when you cook them) and as flamingos eat the algae and brine shrimp, they also turn flamingos’ feathers pink!

They’d eat a wolf, they’d eat each other.

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Common combinations with eat

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "eat" in a sentence?
An example: "I eat when I am lonely, I eat when I am sad, I eat when I am anxious and I eat when I am stressed." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "eat" from authentic English texts.
What does "eat" mean?
Eat means: To ingest; to be ingested.
What are synonyms of "eat"?
Common synonyms of "eat" include: consume, ingest, take in, take, have, eat up, wipe out, run through. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "eat" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "eat", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.