Example sentences for: eaters

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

  • He uses standard English word-formation devices in order to create new words with broad sensory connotations, such as foodist, bellyologist , and groggist to refer to people with uncontrolled appetites, dedicated drinkers of alcohol, and eaters.

  • That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.

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

  • 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).

  • 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').


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