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How to use feeder in a sentence

32 example sentences · noun

Feeder means one who feeds, or gives food to another. Example: “How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?”

Examples of feeder by meaning

nounThe participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).

  • Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies

nounOne who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).

  • Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark, page 173

nounA branch line of a railway.

  • This line, described as a valuable feeder to the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, was opened on July 8, 1836, and superseded the older wagonway.1942 May-June, Charles E. Lee, “The Brampton Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 140
  • Another factor to be allowed for in establishing the remunerativeness of a service was its value as a feeder to the rest of the system.1959 August, “Talking of Trains: The costs of transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 346

More sentences with feeder

  • How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?From the entry head
  • Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?From the entry stocker
  • We made a bird feeder for our yard.From the entry make
  • Wakasagi are pelagic plankton feeders found in open lakes, streams and reservoirs.2021, “California fish species”, in University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. From the entry wakasagi
  • "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were never bottom feeders in the residential mortgage market."2008 July 11, Romaine Bostick, “Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are Sound; Panic Unwarranted, Dodd Says”, in Bloomberg News. From the entry panic
  • Second, in both feeder and nonfeeder territories subordinate birds were less likely to be present than dominants.1992, Nicholas B. Davies, Dunnock behaviour and social evolution. From the entry nonfeeder
  • Like the whale shark, the basking shark is a huge, slow-moving plankton feeder.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry basking shark
  • The titlark, sheath-bill, teal, and goose of South Georgia are wholly or in part vegetable feeders.1922 April, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429. From the entry break-bones
  • They are suction feeders, drinking in their meals rather than eating them, and they’re also teuthivorous, meaning they primarily eat squid.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
  • Set the inhive feeder on the bottom, insert the follower board right behind it, cover with bars, and close the hive.2018, Kim Flottum, The Backyard Beekeeper. From the entry inhive
  • Other nutritional subgroups, represented in smaller numbers, were cambivores (phloem and cortex feeders), detritrivores (necrophagous species) and wood borers (xylophagous species).2015, Jon Andersson, “Wood-inhabiting beetles in low stumps, high stumps and logs on boreal clear-cuts: implications for dead wood…. From the entry cambivore
  • I usually put nyjer seeds in the feeder.2015, Shalini Saxena, A Bird Watcher's Guide to Goldfinches. From the entry nyjer seed
  • All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot.1988, Beef: Stocker Cattle, Clemson University, page 1. From the entry stocker
  • While they are voracious feeders, they have an unsharklike reluctance to take the baited hook of the angler.1975, John Clark, Shark Frenzy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 45. From the entry unsharklike
  • If the feeder is not wasteproof, the birds scatter the grain which they do not want over the floor, often in substantial quantity.2020, Wendell Mitchell Levi, Making Pigeons Pay. From the entry wasteproof
  • Second, the possibility of xenocontamination during transplantation by mouse feeder layer, fetal bovine serum, or recombinant growth factors could therefore be avoided.2015 December 17, “Y-27632, a ROCK Inhibitor, Promoted Limbal Epithelial Cell Proliferation and Corneal Wound Healing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry xenocontamination
  • It does not, however, reach the shore, with a continuous rip feeder channel feeding the rips to either side of the bar.2000, Andrew Short, Beaches of the Queensland Coast: Cooktown to Coolangatta, page 38. From the entry rip
  • Washout, especially in continuously- and intermittently-flushed systems, sedimentation of disentrained cells and grazing by filter feeders can each account for major losses of phytoplankton biomass.1997, Colin S. Reynolds, Otto Kinne, Vegetation processes in the pelagic: a model for ecosystem theory. From the entry disentrained
  • Two European leaf feeders, the jumping plant louse Psylla ulmi and the aphid Tinocallis platani,. are both normally restricted to Ulmus laevis.1983, R. H. Richens, Elm, page 64. From the entry jumping plant louse
  • "He's a foul feeder, is Mr.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry foul feeder
  • The best-protected species are the big, peaceful filter feeders, the basking shark and particularly the whale shark, with its photogenic polka dots and mysterious long-range migration patterns.2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15. From the entry filter feeder
  • I'm not trying to defend house finches—I'm wooed by goldies' looks like every other feeder—and I certainly think that house finches eat far more seed than they deserve.2014, Bill Adler, Outwitting Squirrels, page 34. From the entry goldie
  • Closely related cancellariid species from California have been observed to feed in this manner, and the deep-water southwestern Florida species may also be a similar suctorial feeder.2014, Edward J. Petuch, Molluscan Communities of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Areas. From the entry cancellariid
  • Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session.2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197. From the entry kaw
  • Chop packaged suet blocks into several pieces and serve in an open tray feeder for tanagers, wrens, juncos, native sparrows, and other nonacrobatic birds to enjoy.2009, Sally Roth, Backyard Bird Secrets for Every Season. From the entry nonacrobatic
  • Lower dipteran adults are predominantly penetrative or surface fluid feeders, frequently expressed as nectarivory, which sometimes is combined with the consumption of pollen or vertebrate blood (Fig. 9.3).2005, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 239. From the entry nectarivory
  • Some say the flowers of devil's backbone look like cardinals perched around a feeder, each flower a long-tailed red teardrop that gives rise to another common name, red bird cactus.2012 August 15, Nellie Neal, “Devil's Backbone (Euphorbia tithymaloides)”, in Gardener's Guide to Tropical Plants: Cool Ways to Add Hot…. From the entry devil's backbone
  • The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297. From the entry bobolink

Meaning of feeder

  1. noun One who feeds, or gives food to another.
  2. noun The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
  3. noun One who feeds, or takes in food.

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Questions about feeder in a sentence

How do you use feeder in a sentence?
Feeder is used as a noun. For example: “How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?”
What is a short sentence with feeder?
“"He's a foul feeder, is Mr.”
What does feeder mean?
Feeder means one who feeds, or gives food to another.

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