eaten
Example Sentences
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Now those plans are on hold as her budget is eaten up buying petrol to power up generators to run her sewing machines after fuel prices jumped about 20 percent in Africa's most populous country.
From Barron's
Watkins said "many who arrive at our doors have not eaten properly for days".
From BBC
In better times, these fruits are usually eaten as snacks by young boys as they roam in the wild grazing their goats and sheep.
From BBC
He, who had always eaten kosher, he, the oldest son of an oldest son of a respected family, in fact, he Meyer Mossel Eusebius Smit, was seriously being asked to eat pork.
From Literature
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The doctor, I told Karl, thought she couldn’t have eaten properly for weeks, maybe months, before she came in.
From Literature
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