- present participle of feast.
feasting
Example Sentences
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When nutrient levels are high, feasting algae can quickly reproduce.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
He would see those lorikeets again later, now feasting on the “frilly white blooms” of a eucalyptus tree, their heads dusty with pollen, dizzily enjoying their nectar-rich world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
They have taken advantage of the long summer days in Siberia, or Mongolia, feasting on bugs and berries.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
That’s where market behemoths, who have been feasting on small competitors for decades, begin to hungrily eye one another’s total addressable markets.
From Barron's • Dec. 4, 2025
One might as well weep over Mrs. Platt's dry orts, thinking they might restore what was lost, what had been swallowed, all that had, in times of feasting, been cut away and devoured.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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