eat between meals
Example Sentences
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Instead of skipping breakfast and refusing to eat between meals, she carries snacks at all times — granola bars, peanut butter pretzels, trail mix, the taboos of the past that are now embraced.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2021
“If you need to eat between meals, don’t allow yourself to feel you’ve failed,” she insisted.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2018
Now, it was against the rule to eat between meals, and new hot bread or cake was especially forbidden.
From Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May
They eat between meals, soup and vegetables and most everything else.
From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)
Henry don't know what to do with himself either, and once when he stole out an' fed the chickens Billina scolded him for letting 'em eat between meals.
From The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
