nutritive

Example Sentences

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Once milk flows, the baby will switch to a different, nutritive suck pattern.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

Fall is a great time to add a percolating layer of compost as a nutritive mulch on new or existing beds, or even on a lawn.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2022

To further complicate matters, ultraprocessed foods often contain a combination of nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners that, Small says, produces surprising metabolic effects that result in a particularly potent reinforcement effect.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2019

Five years ago, Rhinehart created Soylent, a wan, nutritive sludge that allows you to keep playing Mortal Kombat as you replenish; he now runs MarsBio, an accelerator for companies working on bioreactors and engineered microalgae.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas?

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides