Example Sentences

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In others, companies have been eating those costs and accepting lower profits, the Fed said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

Gilmore posits that insects have been eating the rotting plant material, and naturally giving themselves a dose of the antibiotics in the process.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

A: According to New Scientist, people have been eating oats for more than 30,000 years.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

“Towards the end it will be still lighter; and we can cut rations, if necessary. We have been eating very well, you know.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin