FEED in a Sentence

Learn FEED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

133 example sentences for FEED, such as:

1. She was feeding a baby at the breast.
2. Bats fly at night and feed on insects.
3. Each sick man meant another mouth to feed.
4. It was hard enough for her to feed her own.
5. He was only another worry, another mouth to feed.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
feed
 v.  give food to a person, group, or animal
 v.  supply something to a person or thing
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  He pulled on his wet coat again and went back to the barn to feed the greys.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  Oh, Matt, I thought we'd fetched it," he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: "I ought to be getting him his feed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Gerald had changed from a wealthy man to a man who was wondering how he would feed his family and his negroes through the winter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  So Scarlett sent Prissy down to warm up the breakfast hominy and feed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  '"Nuthin' wrong wid this chile 'cept he hongry, and whut it take to feed a hongry chile I got.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  He was only another worry, another mouth to feed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Let the army feed the army--if it could.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  It was hard enough for her to feed her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  I've been all up and down this section since we retook Atlanta and there isn't enough to feed a jaybird.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Each sick man meant another mouth to feed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  And we haven't a single field hand to work the cotton and there's so many to feed, thirteen of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  He said I could sublease them for next to nothing and feed them dirt cheap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  All they want is to feed them cheap and git all the work they can out of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Or, he may decide to feed it to his own livestock.
17  They would love to ravage the land and feed the corporations the spoils until there is nothing left.
18  Bats fly at night and feed on insects.
19  So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
20  When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.
21  So Tom says: "What's the vittles for? Going to feed the dogs?"
22  So Tom says: "What's the vittles for? Going to feed the dogs?" The nigger kind of smiled around gradually over his face, like when you heave a brickbat in a mud-puddle, and he says: "Yes, Mars Sid, A dog."
23  The feeder discharged feed into a trough for the livestock.
24  Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera used for food or feed.
25  I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.
26  US intelligence had been feeding false information to a KGB agent.
27  Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
28  We are trying to get the baby into a routine for feeding and sleeping.
29  She was feeding a baby at the breast.
30  The smell of blood sent the sharks into a feeding frenzy.