Example Sentences

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Girls eager for attention from their fathers will diet as a way to get it.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will diet, and pray, and rave,—because you are growing old,—and I shall do none of these things.

From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr

Thou art all the comfort The Gods will diet me with.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John