Example sentences for: eaters

How can you use “eaters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His 1885 work The Potato Eaters shows the hard lives endured by the rural poor among whom Van Gogh lived at this time.

  • For this patriotic venture against the Moors of North Africa, the people of Porto surrendered the finest cuts of meat in their stores to the navy and lived on tripe instead, thus earning their honorable nickname of tripeiros (literally “tripe eaters,” as people from Porto are commonly known).

  • ' Inuit were earlier known by Europeans as `Eskimos'--a pejorative, roughly meaning `eaters of raw meat,' applied to them by INDIAN groups.

  • In Canada, the word `Inuit' (meaning `people'; the singular is `Inuk') has now almost totally replaced `Eskimo' (generally, although perhaps erroneously, believed to be derived from a derogatory Algonkian term meaning `eaters of raw meat').

  • The Crispix came back in force; in fact, the last time I was at the supermarket, the checker gazed at my overflowing cart and said: "Lot of cereal eaters in your house, are there?"


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