eat sparingly
Example Sentences
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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
We eat sparingly that night, because we were weak, and the hen was strong, and we laid down and slept peacefully, and awoke in the morning hungry.
From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
We however bought our knowledge by experience, which we might have had cheaper; for though all our people who tasted this fish, eat sparingly, they were all soon afterwards dangerously ill.
Their meals are scanty, but even of these they eat sparingly; and though each is allowed a small carafe of wine, many refrain from this indulgence.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis
