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
On the part of many it will take all the determination they have to chew their food to a cream and always eat sparingly.
From How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" by Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark)
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)
This may be the ground for the rule that they should only eat sparingly of the totem.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
