- present tense form of eat (3rd person singular).
eats
Example Sentences
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She said she often eats less so her son can have more food.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The resemblance might have ended there, except Kennedy recently told an interviewer that he eats beef twice a day, generally grass-fed strip steak.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
What really eats up the hours of the working day?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The result suggests that elevated oxalate in the intestines may be driven less by the quantity of oxalate a person eats and more by a biological problem in how the gut processes it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
I’m so relieved, but guilt eats at me.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
