- present participle of eat.
eating
Example Sentences
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"I want to have a healthy lifestyle and get in shape, so I've stopped eating them," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Few people then, not even Carpenter’s closest confidantes, knew how to talk about what was actually an eating disorder, much less manage it.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
BBC News's Lorna Gordon said the moon came across from the right, eating into the sun, and left a crescent at the top.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Thousands of interviews convinced the company that people often want their own food, even when eating with others, Jordan said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
All we’d been eating were the few fish we’d managed to poach from Cunningham’s stream and once in a while a wild onion or an old potato.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
