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How to use eater in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Eater means a person or animal who eats. Example: “He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.”

Examples of eater by meaning

nounA person or animal who eats.

  • a very fussy eater
  • Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5
  • I'm a slow but fastidious eater1987, Baird Jones, Sexual humor, page 309

nounA fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.

  • The bass is a fine eater.1911, Robert Ernest Vernède, The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions, page 98
  • For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94

nounA configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.

  • The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so.1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

More sentences with eater

  • He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.From the entry heavy
  • The last few weeks have been full of time eaters.From the entry time eaters
  • The most abundant were fifteen-centimetre-long nocturnal eaters of insects and fruit known as adapisoriculids.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 52. From the entry adapisoriculid
  • Deviled crabs are the only nonbarbecue item, and a vegetable plate is served for nonmeat eaters.2011, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Portable Savannah, page 65. From the entry nonmeat
  • I thank you, my lord, although many would call you a toad eater for such fine words.2011, Marsha Altman, The Road to Pemberley. From the entry toad eater
  • But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN. From the entry rice eater
  • The first batch usually comprised the feral eaters with no social life.2006, Upamanyu Chatterjee, “Hindi Lesson”, in Weight Loss, London: Penguin Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry wolve down
  • Indeed, Osakans are some of the most voracious eaters of the fish, which come from local waters.2005 October 9, Ken Belson, “Going to Osaka”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021. From the entry Osakan
  • We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink!' He turned to me.2004, Zac Unger, Working Fire: The Making of an Accidental Fireman, page 8. From the entry cake-eater
  • He exits quickly, looking like he's just seen the one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater.2001, James D. Johnson, Combat chaplain: a thirty-year Vietnam battle, page 181. From the entry flying purple people eater
  • Some research,⁷⁶⁻⁷⁸ but not all,⁷⁹⁻⁸² suggests that lacto-ovo vegetarians have greater bone density than meat eaters.1996, Mark Messina, Virginia Messina, The Dietitian’s Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications, Aspen, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry lacto-ovo vegetarian
  • I think you're talking about a configuration known as "eater," a still life in 6-8 cells.1992 May 5, Holocaust-->Travesty, “the Hodge Podge machine”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry still life
  • "I've never been a bagel eater or steel cap wearer or baby kisser," Barry avers.1988, Dick Hyman, Washington Wind and Wisdom, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry baby kisser
  • It is a harmless plankton eater, and its name, whale shark has been confusing people for years.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry whale shark
  • Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102. From the entry broth
  • The department concluded its report with a suggested treatment for crayon eaters.1951 February 3, “Dyes Do It: ‘Blue Baby’ Crayon-Eating Case Solved”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXX, Los Angeles, Calif., part 1, page…. From the entry crayon eater
  • The beef eater needs a knife and a fork, while the rice eater does not.1928, Frederick Elmore Lumley, Principles of Sociology, page 36. From the entry rice eater
  • When New York pitcher Vernon Gomez retires as a smokeballer he wants to become a smoke eater.1914, Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, USA. From the entry back-seat driver
  • Other animals then feed on the ‘snow’ eaters.2012, Caspar Henderson, “Sea Butterfly”, in The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary, 1st American edition, Chicago…. From the entry snow
  • It's on this basis, I believe, that many morally concerned meat eaters justify purchasing meat from small, free-range animal farms.2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic. From the entry free-range
  • Archie was a cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater.2011, Lara Bergen, Sophie the Snoop. From the entry cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
  • He smiled at the memory of an elderly uncle, also fond of drawing, who′d always called rubbers ‘lead eaters’.2010, Anna Jacobs, Beyond the Sunset, unnumbered page. From the entry rubber
  • I bet you won’t have to proclaim its veganness to forewarn meat eaters—they’ll probably never know the difference!2009, Serena Bartlett, “Raven’s Restaurant”, in “The Quiet Coast”, in GrassRoutes Northern California Wine Country: Green Road Trips…. From the entry veganness
  • New Orleans palates nostrify incoming cuisines thanks to a pervasive eating will bred into generations of enthusiastic eaters.2003, Berndt Ostendorf, “Eating New Orleans Style”, in Christa Grewe-Volpp, Werner Reinhart, editors, Erlesenes Essen, page 99. From the entry nostrify
  • I can't help myself-⁠-I'm a crayon eater.1995 January–February, Desparate^([sic]) [pseudonym], “Advice”, in Peek-a-Boo, number 12, Austin, Tex., page 26, column 2. From the entry crayon eater
  • I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13. From the entry picker
  • The neighbour eater saved his jug with both hands, barking Romanly, eyes abulge, while the wine danced to its resettling.1977, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Abba Abba, Boston: Little Brown, page 49. From the entry abulge
  • Through the baby years, we may consider we are doing very well to produce a relaxed, nonfussy eater.1965, Louise Raymond, Good Housekeeping's book of today's etiquette, page 47. From the entry nonfussy
  • The meat eater is not ashamed of his meat eating.1902 February, Peter Davidson, “Fixed Stars”, in Herald of the Golden Age, volume 7, number 2, →OCLC, page 21. From the entry aristophagist
  • Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters.2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit. From the entry schistocerca
  • The girls were having lots of fun rolling around on the bed, though Kacie was a much better fingerer and occasional eater.2001, Cool Sexy Guy, “Story: Cheerleading Camp”, in alt.sex (Usenet). From the entry fingerer
  • If the glider hits the right spot, the eater will form a bridge and destroy the glider while undergoing little change before reverting.1992 May 5, Holocaust-->Travesty, “the Hodge Podge machine”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry still life
  • I entered theaters where the happy lotus eaters sat slumped in their massage chairs, transfixed by the glowing tridim images—and capered down the aisles.1963, Robert Silverberg, “To See the Invisible Man”, in Earth in Transit, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., published 1976, page 59. From the entry tridim
  • Man was entirely at the mercy of nature—a mere scavenger who eked out a miserable existence as a food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish.1928, Christopher Dawson, The Age of the Gods, page 49. From the entry nature

Meaning of eater

  1. noun A person or animal who eats.
  2. noun A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
  3. noun A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.

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Questions about eater in a sentence

How do you use eater in a sentence?
Eater is used as a noun. For example: “He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.”
What is a short sentence with eater?
“a very fussy eater”
What does eater mean?
Eater means a person or animal who eats.

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