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Example sentences for: ate

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Cronenberg's early movies were somber but had horrific metaphors that ate into the mind, and he showed signs in The Fly (1986) and Dead Ringers (1988) of actually developing a sense of humor to complement his paranoid-gynecologist's vision.
One account says a woman ate her 2-year-old child.
Off Grafton Street is Kehoe’s (South Anne Street), a favorite watering spot; and on Duke Street are two pubs with with Ulysses connections — Davy Byrne’s, where Leopold Bloom ate a gorgonzola sandwich and drank a glass of wine, and Bailey’s, a busy, trendy pub on the site of Leopold Bloom’s house.
Subject: The Dog Who Ate Peanuts
“Though I pass through a gloomy valley, I fear no harm” is like “Though I pass through Wichita on a rainy day on the way to California, I won't have an accident in my automobile”; “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil” is no casual passing by but step-by-step pacing through life with death constantly threatening and the devil's evil lure contemned, reminding us of Adam and Eve who, tempted by the devil, were enticed and ate from the tree of Good and Evil (not harm!)