meat and drink
Example Sentences
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This pure and balanced duet of meat and drink echoes Hemingway’s sentiment that food isn’t mere sustenance.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Far from portfolio buffers, these sorts of moves make bonds meat and drink for hedge funds.
From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2022
It could serve as meat and drink to these Rangers players as they seek to overcome the odds again.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022
Mane runs at Blind, who puts no pressure on him, and finds a totally unmarked Pelle, for whom the header is meat and drink.
From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2015
It was, for a long time, in spite of—or, not inconceivably, because of—the shabbiness of my motives, my only sustenance, my meat and drink.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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