DIET in a Sentence

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77 example sentences for DIET, such as:

1. The patient is on a diet.
2. They exist on a diet of fish.
3. Fruit, by the by, was all their diet.
4. A good diet is vital for healthy growth.
5. It's never too late to improve your diet.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diet
 n.  nutritional plan; nourishment; a prescribed selection of foods
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Be careful about the sugar, and mind the diet I gave you.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
9  Fruit, by the by, was all their diet.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  She began to assist the water with a slim oatmeal diet and blister-plasters.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  "Do not forget the diet," said King Hroar.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
12  Morrel bringing a doctor, and the doctor said it was inflammation of the bowels, and ordered him a limited diet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
13  They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
14  I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
15  This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  An excess of fat in one's diet can lead to heart disease.
17  The children seem to exist on a diet of burgers and chips.
18  They exist on a diet of fish.
19  Whether diet is an important factor in this illness is still uncertain.
20  People can fight infection more easily if they have an adequate diet.
21  Fish and rice were the mainstays of the country's diet.
22  A good diet is vital for healthy growth.
23  It's never too late to improve your diet.
24  The dietitian was helpful, making suggestions as to how I could improve my diet.
25  We can offer you practical suggestions on how to increase the fibre in your daily diet.
26  You can leave the butter out of this recipe if you're on a low-fat diet.
27  A healthy diet should supply all necessary vitamins and minerals.
28  Such a diet is widely believed to offer protection against a number of cancers.
29  Vegetables are an integral part of our diet.
30  The patient is on a diet.