eat between meals
Example Sentences
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Instead of skipping breakfast and refusing to eat between meals, she carries snacks at all times — granola bars, peanut butter pretzels, trail mix, the taboos of the past that are now embraced.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2021
“If you need to eat between meals, don’t allow yourself to feel you’ve failed,” she insisted.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2018
The following are good rules to follow in making your daily food habits: Do not eat between meals.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
And then Frank asked Sammy if his mother allowed him to eat between meals and Sammy said, "Oh, sure—I kin eat any time at all—it never hurts me."
From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine
She begged her to give the boy a little something to eat between meals occasionally,--for he would certainly forget to ask for it,--and she would pay for it all honestly.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
