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How to use vegetarian in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective

Vegetarian means a person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. Example: “Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.”

Examples of vegetarian by meaning

nounA person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

  • It tried to make out, that all philosophers and prophets from Pythagoras and Jesus down to those of the present age were vegetarians.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xv
  • Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived...
  • You hit like a vegetarian!2013, Miles Chapman, Arnell Jesko, Escape Plan, spoken by Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

adjectiveOf or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

  • According to interviews by New York Times correspondents across the country, more and more people—especially the young—are giving up “flesh foods” in favor of a vegetarian way of life.1975 March 21, Judy Klemesrud, “Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived...

adjectiveOf a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.

  • Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog?2008, Wil Forbis, Acid Logic: A Decade of Humorous Writing on Pop Culture, Trash Cinema, and Rebel Music, page 208

adjectiveThat does not eat meat.

  • I have a vegetarian brother

More sentences with vegetarian

  • Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.From the entry fish
  • The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.From the entry buyer
  • I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.From the entry comprehend
  • As an unabashed health nut, she always asked for brown rice to go with her vegetarian entrees.From the entry brown rice
  • With three vegetarians in the house, it seemed simplest to have a turkeyless Christmas.From the entry turkeyless
  • I wanted pepperoni pizza, but my friend was a vegetarian, so we landed on having cheese pizza.From the entry land on
  • For the vegetarians, she served cucumber sushi.From the entry sushi
  • The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).From the entry overlap
  • Me, take up yoga and become a vegetarian? As if!From the entry as if
  • This tastes rather meaty. Are you sure it's vegetarian?From the entry meaty
  • Bean sprouts are a nutritious vegetarian ingredient for stir-fry.From the entry bean sprout
  • Meat and onions frying did have that effect, unless you were a vegetarian, I supposed.2021 August 24, Maddie Day, No Grater Crime, Country Store Mystery, →ISBN, page 236. From the entry shooee
  • I know enough about Jainism to know that Jains are some of the most extreme vegetarians around.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 55. From the entry Jainism
  • These eat the same as lacto-ovo vegetarians, but they do not eat eggs.2016, Helen Buckland, Jacqui Keepin, WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition, Hodder Education, →ISBN. From the entry lacto-ovo vegetarian
  • Tom Sandoval tells her the Korean BBQ restaurant he picked out will have lots of vegetarian options.2013 December 17, Kristie Rohwedder, “'Vanderpump Rules' Keeps Getting better”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2020. From the entry 'straunt
  • Vegetarian tweeter Jessica Edmonds tells me her boyfriend likes a similar recipe because "it tastes of Twiglets!".2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian. From the entry call to mind
  • The tuco-tuco is a vegetarian rodent very similar in appearance and behaviour to the ground squirrel.2011, Erin McCloskey, Argentina, page 56. From the entry tuco-tuco
  • As a vegetarian for the past 10 years, I'm an unlikely candidate for a hunting party.2010 October 6, Wendy Zukerman, “Eating Skippy: Is Kangaroo the Kindest Meat?”, in New Scientist, volume 108, number 2781, London: Reed…. From the entry kangatarian
  • Listed within them are dishes for vegetarians and for diners who prefer cooked fish or riceless rolls.2009 August 23, M. H. Reed, “East and West in a Complex Fusion”, in New York Times. From the entry riceless
  • This is typically the case in West London in vegetarian Indo-Asians with chronic renal impairment.2007, Alun H Davies, Christopher P Gibbons, Vascular Access Simplified, →ISBN. From the entry Indo-Asian
  • They may be filled with pork or have a vegetarian stuffing; usually, their skin is somewhat thinner.2005, Mark Bittman, The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home, Double B Publishing…. From the entry mandoo
  • For me, I could not give a stuff who is vegetarian, chickenarian or what.2000 August 4, JAID [username], “Re: Lighten up”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet). From the entry chickenarian
  • Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57. From the entry die and go to heaven
  • 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
  • You can feast on turkey tacos for $4.50, vegetarian sandwiches for $4, and peanut-butter-and-jellies for $1.75.1992, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, On the Loose in the Pacific Northwest…. From the entry peanut-butter-and-jelly
  • Finally she divided the Hindu, Muslim, and Christian students into three categories: vegetarians, meatarians, and eggarians.1984, M Thomas Starkes, God's commissioned people. From the entry meatarian
  • We are vegetarian leaning, dislike smoking and alcohol, cannot abide drugs.1978 December 2, “!HELP!! (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 19, page 14. From the entry abide
  • The great majority of the holopod snails have a vegetarian diet.1959, Fieldiana: Zoology, page 116. From the entry holopod
  • During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv. From the entry trot
  • Megha Ramesh, a food-science student at the University of California, Davis, uses her air fryer to make vegetarian foods.2022 January 25, Christina Morales, “How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry handpie
  • I'd like to encourage vegetarians to become "kangatarians".2018 January–February, George Wilson, “Kangaroos can be an Asset rather than a Pest”, in Australasian Science, volume 39, number 1…. From the entry kangatarian
  • Many mainstream restaurants today have a vegetarian menu, and the old representation of vegetarians as ill people is now totally redundant.2017 December 13, Francesco Buscemi, From Body Fuel to Universal Poison: Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present, Springer, →ISBN, page…. From the entry redundant
  • Meateaters are 3 times more likely to be obese than vegetarians, and 9 times more likely than vegans.2017, Carlo Alvaro, “Ethical veganism, virtue, and greatness of the soul”, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, volume 30…. From the entry meateater
  • Vegetarians live up to nine years longer than meat-eaters.2017 December 2, Kevin Shadow-Walker, “Various Randomness”, in What Is Wrong with You? A Collection of My Facebook Status Updates, Kage…. From the entry cheeseburgerless

Meaning of vegetarian

  1. noun A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
  2. noun An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

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Questions about vegetarian in a sentence

How do you use vegetarian in a sentence?
Vegetarian is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Though Lena is a vegetarian, she doesn't have any problem with eating fish.”
What is a short sentence with vegetarian?
“I have a vegetarian brother”
What does vegetarian mean?
Vegetarian means a person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

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