food
noun
any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.
foodless
-
a word derived from
food.
Example Sentences
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“Being broke and homeless and friendless and jobless and foodless and anorexic — it was not a vibe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
“I lay in a backyard in Bow, foodless and drinkless, urinating and defecating where I was,” he writes, “treating as hostile the humans in the row houses all around—which wasn’t hard.”
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
Empty, savage, and foodless: This was Detroit’s reputation when Robb first went there.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2014
Of course, in the long term, a world where an increasing number of people are facing foodless days and an increasing number of countries are facing food-driven instability could be dangerous for everyone.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2014
The pure-minded peasant girl seeks remission of sins, the foodless peasant a liberty to eat what the expenses of this pilgrimage will perhaps deprive him of the means of obtaining.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
