eat sparingly
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Ribbons of caramel, chocolate and ingredients most adults should only eat sparingly — such as bubble gum, cake frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017
They were all day on the long black road, stopping in the afternoon to eat sparingly from their meager supplies.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
But I do admit that when some of these people get well by dieting, they are able to eat sparingly of all these things and still keep well.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Thomas C. (Thomas Clark) Hinkle
"If there is any prospect of our being snowed in we'll have to eat sparingly, or run the risk of being starved to death."
From The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer
The poor of both countries eat sparingly of animal food; rice, and other grains and vegetables, form the staple articles on which they live.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 by William Chambers
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