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
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 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The poor of both countries eat sparingly of animal food; rice, and other grains and vegetables, form the staple articles on which they live.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 by Chambers, William
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)
