alimentation

Example Sentences

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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

I am also aware that an exclusively vegetable alimentation might be substituted for our customary mixed diet, which is both animal and vegetable.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Richet, Charles

The chief, if not the exclusive sources of his mental alimentation have been the Chinese Classics.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

I now fear nothing in the future, so far as health and disease are concerned, so much as excessive alimentation.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward