- past tense form of eat.
ate
Example Sentences
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Xu, whose mother died when he was a year old, recalled in a speech how he ate only sweet potato and steamed bread in his school years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Neither group was given a calorie target or told to limit how much they ate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dar Lbahja and Wadadli also saw bumps in orders of the dishes that Davis and Neff ate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
What I didn’t mention was that I ate the first quarter of my bowl standing up, at the bar top between my kitchen and the little alcove where our two-person table sits.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
After much exhausting digging, he grubbed up four more, ate two, and stuffed two in his jerkin for later.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
