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How to use fattening in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, noun

Fattening means that causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value. Example: “I'd really love to lose weight, the trouble is, tasty desserts with stuff like whipped cream are so fattening.”

Examples of fattening by meaning

adjectiveThat causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value.

  • I'd really love to lose weight, the trouble is, tasty desserts with stuff like whipped cream are so fattening.

More sentences with fattening

  • Though fattening, a fry up is without doubt my favourite way to start the day.From the entry fry up
  • I bought skinless chicken breast because the fat right under the skin is supposed to be fattening; but they don't crisp as much.From the entry skinless
  • Mostly they revolved around all-day drinking and weight gain – fattening the curve.2022 March 24, Alison Colwell, No Excuses: Turning Around One of Britain's Toughest Schools, Biteback Publishing, page 207. From the entry fatten the curve
  • Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets.2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden…. From the entry offset
  • The old saw that if it feels too good it's probably illegal, immoral, or fattening is no joke.1998, Stella Resnick, The Pleasure Zone. From the entry antipleasure
  • 'There's sure to be a fridge for keeping the beer cold.' 'I don't drink beer — it's fattening.1993, Anne Weale, Footprints in the Sand. From the entry voddy
  • Did you hear about the town that was fattening the curve so much that the mayor had to take away everyone’s quarantinis?2020 June 2, “Quarantini? Moronavirus? COVID-10? Wordplay Brings Humor to These Times”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on…. From the entry fatten the curve
  • Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.1923, Norwegian Trade Review, numbers 6-8, page 39. From the entry cattle
  • Blood and gravity had sausaged her legs and feet, fattening them into white-stocking loaves that dangled eighteen inches above her neatly folded nurse’s uniform on the floor.2007, Joe Schreiber, Eat the Dark, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry sausage
  • Winterfat, as the name implies, is chiefly valuable on winter ranges, where it often furnishes an abundance of palatable and nutritious forage highly fattening to sheep and cattle.1937, Range Plant Handbook. From the entry winterfat

Meaning of fattening

  1. adjective That causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value.
  2. noun The act of making something fatter, particularly in reference or allusion to livestock.
  3. noun The act of becoming fatter.

Full definition of fattening

Questions about fattening in a sentence

How do you use fattening in a sentence?
Fattening is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I'd really love to lose weight, the trouble is, tasty desserts with stuff like whipped cream are so fattening.”
What is a short sentence with fattening?
“Mostly they revolved around all-day drinking and weight gain – fattening the curve.”
What does fattening mean?
Fattening means that causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value.

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