- past participle of eat.
eaten
Example Sentences
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Along Point Dume in Malibu, ocean waves have eaten away some 60 feet of sand, threatening a road essential to accessing the parking lot, according to the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
She would not necessarily sit down with you; chances were good that she had eaten hours earlier, at some time I associated primarily with airport departures and dairy farming.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Foragers risk getting fined or prosecuted for picking the mushrooms, but they can also be poisonous if eaten.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The results support a recent hypothesis that Neanderthals may have regularly eaten animal carcasses containing fly larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
He’d already eaten five eggs and a half dozen strips of bacon, and he was still working on a stack of pancakes tall enough to sit on.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
