alimentation

Example Sentences

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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Their different species are like so many blind alleys, as if, by renouncing the mode of alimentation customary amongst vegetables, they had been brought to a standstill on the highway of vegetable evolution.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

I now fear nothing in the future, so far as health and disease are concerned, so much as excessive alimentation.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

The mode of administration will be specially referred to under the head of alimentation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The chief, if not the exclusive sources of his mental alimentation have been the Chinese Classics.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.