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

There would be nothing amusing in the saying did there not exist that salutary precept in the realm of hygiene: "One should not eat between meals."

From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry

I never did eat between meals, and I'm not going to begin.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

I never eat between meals, but I appreciate your kindness.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore