alimentation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

Very nutritive and very digestible food should be chosen for a singer, and a mixed alimentation should be employed.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.

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

The mammals—from the Latin mamma, a breast—are characterized by the presence of breasts designed for the alimentation of their young.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard