DIET in a Sentence

Learn DIET from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
77 example sentences for DIET, such as:
1. He began his diet a week ago.
2. We all need variety in our diet.
3. Fruit, by the by, was all their diet.
4. Try excluding sugar and fat from your diet.
5. A healthy diet creates a body resistant to disease.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIET
diet
 v.  follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
 n.  a prescribed selection of foods
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Be careful about the sugar, and mind the diet I gave you.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  That he should have kept himself in training under such circumstances is remarkable, but his diet was usually of the sparest, and his habits were simple to the verge of austerity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
9  Fruit, by the by, was all their diet.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  She began to assist the water with a slim oatmeal diet and blister-plasters.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  "Do not forget the diet," said King Hroar.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
12  Morrel bringing a doctor, and the doctor said it was inflammation of the bowels, and ordered him a limited diet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
13  They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
14  I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
15  This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  For further information on the diet, write to us at this address.
2  He began his diet a week ago.
3  Experts generally agree that diet has an important bearing on your general health.
4  The Chinese also eat a type of pasta as part of their staple diet.
5  If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness, and moderate diet.
6  This diet is suited to anyone who wants to lose weight fast.
7  Try excluding sugar and fat from your diet.
8  A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.
9  We all need variety in our diet.
10  A healthy diet creates a body resistant to disease.
11  Scientists have established possible links between cancer and diet.
12  The condition is usually treated with drugs and a strict diet.
13  He cut down on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet.
14  There's a direct link between diet and heart disease.
15  The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.