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Sentences starting with ate

Ate the meat and rind of our ham-bone, and have the bone and the greasy cloth from around the ham left to eat to-morrow. [5]
Ate ham-bone to-day. [5]

Sentences ending with ate

All around them were well-dressed, well-fed, prosperous-looking people, talking and laughing in subdued tones as they ate. [9]
The prince, with princely delicacy and breeding, sent away the servants, so that his humble guest might not be embarrassed by their critical presence; then he sat near by, and asked questions while Tom ate. [5]
It may possibly pay for the barrel of beef that Sherman's soldiers captured, if you can get a relief bill through Congress making an appropriation for that purpose; but it will not pay for the twenty-nine barrels the Indians ate. [5]
Harry took an ice and stood up by the table with other gentlemen, and listened to the buzz of conversation while he ate. [5]
He took out his watch which represented so many laborious hours of other Barbilles, and with a decision in which the strong pulse of chivalry was beating hard, he said: "I can never speak well till I have ate. [11]
Do you know, Euphrasia, there were two reasons why those were the best pies I ever ate? [9]

Short sentences using ate

He ate for us both. [5]

Sentences containing ate two or more times

He examined the table waiter, as to whether Col. Selby ate any breakfast, and what he ate, and if he had any appetite. [5]
Those three fluffy goslings sat there contentedly, and squared up the long famine--lapped and lapped, munched and munched, ate and ate, till the gravy appeared in their eyes--humbly waiting for the Lady Gwendolen to take precedence and move out first, you see! [5]

More example sentences with the word ate in them

I will show you, Mrs. Falchion, the biggest saw that ever ate the heart out of a Norfolk pine. [11]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
We tempted him with the delicacies of the season, but it soon became impossible for him to eat, and for two weeks he ate or drank scarcely anything. [4]
Poor Tom ate with his fingers mainly; but no one smiled at it, or even seemed to observe it. [5]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
Indeed, a man who didn't give his mind to what he ate wouldn't have any mind by-and-by to give to anything. [4]
War and fighting were their portion--as they ate, as they drank and slept. [11]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
While he ate, we smoked and chatted; and when he was finishing he found his voice at last, and of his own accord broke out with his personal history. [5]
S-sat there and watched 'em--nobody ate anything. [9]
The weed-grown garden was full of ripe tomatoes, and I ate them ravenously, though I had never liked them before. [5]
At home he wandered around no longer, idle and fasting, but ate his meals regularly, and threw himself into his work with such passionate energy, that even the industrious Schimmel found it too much, and Frau Schimmel grew anxious. [10]
This particular gull visited a cottage; was fed; came next day and was fed again; came into the house, next time, and ate with the family; kept on doing this almost daily, thereafter. [5]
Each one of us had a half, and how gladly we ate the little morsel, for even a taste of any dainty seemed good to us, after we had lived on nothing but bread and potatoes. [10]
He picked it up and ate it with relish, laughing to himself. [11]
Mr. Curry owned two thirds of it--and he said that he sold it out for twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, and an old plug horse that ate up his market value in hay and barley in seventeen days by the watch. [5]
A portion of Tom's half of the cake was left; they divided and ate it. [5]
Pierre went up to the fire, ate some roast horseflesh, lay down with his back to the fire, and immediately fell asleep. [2]
I could afford to smile at the weather, at the obsidian sky, at the rain still falling persistently; and yet, as I ate my breakfast, I felt a certain impatience to verify what I knew was a certainty, and hurried to the telephone booth. [9]
It is difficult to say exactly what was the sin of stealing that kind of pie, especially if the one who stole it ate it. [4]
And it came to pass that they ate and slept, and prepared for death on the morrow. [5]
He was thin to gauntness, ate ravenously of the food that was set before him, and throwing off his soaked moccasins, he spread his scalded feet to the blaze, and the steaming odor of drying leather filled the room. [9]
When we were tired at last we sat down and ate, for he had soap and candles and I had brought along some blubber. [5]
Yes, the first time I ever ate hedgehog; was in Aunt Cynthy's house. [11]
To Nemesis with them, to Ate and the Erinyes! [10]
She sat facing them, and, taking from a bag at her side some wild fruits, ate slowly, saying nothing. [11]
Darkness was on them by this time, and the host lighted bowls of fat with wicks of deer's tendons, and by the light of these and the fire they ate their supper. [11]
While he ate, the sun set beyond a dip in the rim of the curved wall. [13]
Abdalla motioned to the next room, where the blind men ate their evening meal, and out to the dimly lighted streets where thousands of narghilehs and cigarettes made little smoky clouds that floated around white turbans and dark faces. [11]
My presence gave the monks hope, and cheered them up a good deal; insomuch that they ate a square meal that night for the first time in ten days. [5]
I slept upon the matter; I ate no supper, neither any breakfast next morning. [5]
But they ate the lunch Cynthia had brought, far from the crowd, under the trees by Coniston Water. [9]
In the end the fines ate up our crop--and they took it all; they took it all and made us harvest it for them, without pay or food, and we starving. [5]
But alas, when the debt at last reached $1800 or $2500 (I have forgotten which) the interest ate too formidably into his borrowings, and so he quietly ceased to pay it or speak of it. [5]
At last, when the dance was all over, the guilds with the town-pipers betook them to the head constable's quarters, where they were served with drink and ate the Shrove-Tuesday meal of fish which was given in their honor. [10]
No longer is the curtain drawn aside for tribute, for appeal, or for adoration, but It remains until the last footfall dies in the temple, and the portals ate closed forever. [11]
I went to the Bradlaughs and sat down on 'em, I lived with 'em, ate with 'em, brought 'em home at night. [9]
My Indians did that, and so inconstant is the human heart that I ate heartily of the meat. [11]
By the piper that played before Moses, I'll ate ye! [5]
He grew everything that he ate, vegetables and grains. [11]
He ate his supper to-night with his usual appetite, which had always been sparing; and he would have eaten the same amount if the Northeastern Railroads had been going into the hands of a receiver the next day. [9]
He ate his supper of buckwheat soup with horseflesh and chatted with his comrades. [2]
We were so starved that we ate up the rest of the Brigade's provisions, and then set out to Carson to tell them about it and ask their forgiveness. [5]
The quantities of spirits that he drank (he ate little) would have killed a half-dozen healthy men. [11]
But we were soaked and my shoes full of water, so we ate at once, stripped and went to bed for 2 1/2 hours while our traps were thoroughly dried, and our boots greased in addition. [5]
Terrible moments drifted slowly by, and still the King ate, still he lived, still the lightnings of the insulted gods were withheld! [5]
She ate, drank, slept, or kept awake, but did not live. [2]
He ate the slap-jacks, the buttermilk-pop, the pork and beans, the Indian corn on the cob, the pea-soup, and the bread baked in the roadside oven, with a relish which was not all pretence; for indeed he was as primitive as he was subtle. [11]
But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower. [2]
At supper Herdegen scarce ate a morsel, for he could not bring himself to endure that his betrothed should sink so low as to receive an alms. [10]
But while I sat listening to him, as he talked and ate, I could not keep my eyes off his wife who reclined opposite to me silent and motionless, for the gods had created Korinna in her very image. [10]
At last Sally, realising his proud defiance of hunger, offered him a little lump of pemmican and a biscuit, and with a grunt he took it from her hands and ate it. [11]
Breakfast was just ready; we sat down and ate it. [5]
But the American Publishing Company sold its books only by subscription, and the agents' commissions and delivery expenses ate heavily into the profits. [5]
It is just possible that this hill is Mount Ararat, and that Noah's Ark rested here, and he ate oysters and threw the shells overboard. [5]
He ate his pork and beans for breakfast with the appetite of a ravenous animal. [11]
All his little playmates who ate green apples came to Solomon's funeral, and were very sorry for what they had done. [4]
I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). [5]
The university scholars out of term ate dinner at ten. [4]
Cambyses prepared at once to comply with his mother's wish, at the same time giving Phanes his hand to kiss, a rare honor, only shown to those that ate at the king's table, and saying: "All the prisoners are to be set at liberty. [10]
I ate nothing on the last of the three eventful days--I only suffered. [5]
Joshua, who sat on her other side and ate prodigiously, scarcely addressed a word to her; but she gathered from his remarks to his father and brother that he was interested in cows. [9]
And it appeared on cross-examination by Mr. Langmaid, who ate his cold meat and salad with an exasperating and undiminished appetite--that the only definite thing the rector had said was that he didn't intend to preach socialism. [9]
Courage sits best on a full stomach, and as they ate they cared not whether the Atlantic had opened between them and Vincennes. [9]
With the setting of the sun came a clatter of tins and a savoury odour throughout Khartoum to its farthest precincts, for it was Ramadan, and no man ate till sunset. [11]
I ate heartily of the rich beef and bread with a new-made appetite, and drank the rest of the wine. [11]
And they were of the best, too, and we ate them and wished we had more, though none of us said so. [5]
But we ate of it with thankfulness, washed it down with hot fluid, and bitterly thought of the morrow. [4]
Squirrels ate out of her hand, she had even tamed two partridges, and she kept in her little garden a bear she had brought up from a cub. [11]
Once, in stress of circumstances, I ate part of a barrel of sardines, there being nothing else at hand, but since then I have always been able to get along without sardines. [5]
It was an object of the highest ambition to be one of those who ate at the king's table, and even he to whom a portion was sent might deem himself a highly-favored man. [10]
Yet is he not well, any more than I, though but just now, in the dining-hall at the Elephant, I ate like a starving wolf, and could at this moment jump over this table. [10]
It was past noon, therefore they ordered their landlord, downstairs, to send up hot beefsteaks, chickens, and such things, and these they ate, sitting comfortable at the several tables, whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. [5]
Porridge, and bacon nicely done, and duff and ale, with the sea rushing past the cabin windows as we ate, touched into colour by the setting sun. [9]
The symptoms of Natasha's illness were that she ate little, slept little, coughed, and was always low-spirited. [2]
The tigers ate my house, paying no attention when I ordered them to desist, and they would have eaten me if I had stayed --which I didn't, but went away in much haste. [5]
The tigers ate my horse, paying no attention when I ordered them to desist, and they would even have eaten me if I had stayed--which I didn't, but went away in much haste.... [5]
I killed that mountain lion, and I ate the haunch of deer I dragged from under her . [11]
He stood a moment and ate some coffee-beans and drank some cold water from a stream at the foot of the crag, and then began his ascent. [11]
Thus master and mistress, son and daughter, foreman and apprentice, sewing man and maid all ate, as they had ever done, at the same table. [10]
But the greatest miracle of the night was little Jacob, who ate oysters as if he had been born and bred to the business--sprinkled the pepper and the vinegar with a discretion beyond his years--and afterwards built a grotto on the table with the shells. [12]
They began with mind--more or less--they ate the fruits of indolence, got precious near being sinful as well as indolent, and ended with cheap cynicism, with the old 'quid refert'--the thing Hamlet plagiarised in his, 'But it is no matter. [11]
Yet the scanty meal they ate with the monks in the ancient room was enlivened by the eager yet quiet questioning of David, to whom the monks responded with more spirit than had been often seen in this arid retreat. [11]
He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel. [11]
Nor were the lesser dynasties of the Delta allowed, according to the Stela of Pianchi, to cross the threshold of the Pharaohs because they were unclean and ate fish. [10]
Beside his place lay a lengthy, close-written letter, and from time to time, as he ate his canned pears, his hand turned over one of its many sheets. [9]
You thought me just the brazen roue, who seized what came his way, who ate the fruit within his grasp, who lived to deceive for his own selfish joy. [11]
The fire ate its way steadily, despising the bucket brigade that fought it. [5]
It drew blood, it ate human flesh, it secured order where there was no law, and it did the work of prison and penitentiary. [11]
I kept you in luxury--you that fed in the cattle-kraal; you that had mealies to eat and a shred of biltong when you could steal it; you that ate a steinbok raw on the Vaal, you were so wild for meat . [11]
My host travelled in luxury, and we ate the Creole dishes, which his cook prepared, with silver forks which he kept in a great chest in the cabin. [9]
Mr. Henderson lived in a gloomy Gothic house on High Street, ate three very plain meals a day, and drank iced water. [9]
The first time I ever ate hedgehog was at her place. [11]
They had a humble look, and when Huck prepared his pipe after the meal and was going to prepare theirs, they said no, they were not feeling very well--something they ate at dinner had disagreed with them. [5]
Thus the ready hospitality of the poor, which passed over the heads of Tom and me as we ate bread and onions and potatoes with a ravenous hunger. [9]
Presently he ate his heart out with mortification. [11]
The throbbing in his head presently stopped, and he felt that if he ate something he could go to sleep again, it was so restful in this place--a whole day's sleep and rest, how good it would be after last night's racketing! [11]
Pierre reached out his hand, and drank the water and ate the coarse bread that had been put near him. [11]
He ate nothing himself, but sat and chatted, and did one curious thing after another to amuse us. [5]
I never saw her face; but I was sent to bear each day to her door the food she ate and a balass of water; and I did according to my sentence. [11]

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