feeder

Example Sentences

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Mr Manakas walks past the empty metal feeders and the milking room now gathering cobwebs.

From BBC

Lapowski had emigrated in 1869 and built a successful business, earning enough to send his son to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts, a feeder school for Harvard.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another implication of the findings is that sponges lost a lot of the elements of a proper nervous system and muscular system because they’re filter feeders attached to the bottom of the ocean floor.

From Scientific American

Naturally, the most numerous fossils will be the leaves and branches of trees that grew along the lake and its feeder streams.

From Seattle Times

“I’m going to bring a little of L.A. to New York,” she remarked, noting that PS1 has long played a feeder role, especially for putting younger artists on MoMA’s radar screen.

From Los Angeles Times