eat sparingly

Example Sentences

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Ribbons of caramel, chocolate and ingredients most adults should only eat sparingly — such as bubble gum, cake frosting and rainbow sprinkles.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2017

They were all day on the long black road, stopping in the afternoon to eat sparingly from their meager supplies.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

But I do admit that when some of these people get well by dieting, they are able to eat sparingly of all these things and still keep well.

From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)

It lived a week, and for hours at a time was so nearly comfortable as to eat sparingly of milk, lettuce, cabbage, and clover, with which I supplied it lavishly twice a day.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Harland, Marion

Their meals are scanty, but even of these they eat sparingly; and though each is allowed a small carafe of wine, many refrain from this indulgence.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew