MEAT in a Sentence

Learn MEAT 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.
174 example sentences for MEAT, such as:
1. There's too much meat.
2. The meat was as tough as old boots.
3. One man's meat is another man's poison.
4. I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
5. Give us the cold meat, and bread and cheese.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MEAT
meat
 n.  the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
 n.  the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
Classic Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  Give us the cold meat, and bread and cheese.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
2  When the thighs were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest of the meat up small, put the pieces on the spits and toasted them over the fire.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
3  Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
4  Calypso set meat and drink before him of the food that mortals eat; but her maids brought ambrosia and nectar for herself, and they laid their hands on the good things that were before them.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
5  She gave him a goat skin full of black wine, and another larger one of water; she also gave him a wallet full of provisions, and found him in much good meat.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
6  When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, we admired the island and wandered all over it, while the nymphs Jove's daughters roused the wild goats that we might get some meat for our dinner.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
7  We stayed with Circe for a whole twelvemonth feasting upon an untold quantity both of meat and wine.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
8  As I drew near I began to smell hot roast meat, so I groaned out a prayer to the immortal gods.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
9  At this moment Eteoneus joined him, for he lived close by and had just got up; so Menelaus told him to light the fire and cook some meat, which he at once did.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
10  Eteoneus carved the meat and gave them each their portions, while Megapenthes poured out the wine.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
11  Then the swineherd brought them platters of cold meat, the remains from what they had eaten the day before, and he filled the bread baskets with bread as fast as he could.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
12  The servants brought him a portion of meat, and an upper woman servant set bread before him that he might eat.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
13  Their meat became smeared with blood; their eyes filled with tears, and their hearts were heavy with forebodings.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XX
14  When they got there they found Telemachus with the stockman and the swineherd cutting up meat and mixing wine with water.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
15  I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
2  Allow the meat to thaw properly before cooking it.
3  There's too much meat.
4  One man's meat is another man's poison.
5  This chapter contains the meat of the writer's argument.
6  Ask the meatman to trim away the fat edges of the meat.
7  Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
8  The crisis has led to price rises in basic foodstuffs, such as meat, cheese and sugar.
9  To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
10  The meat was as tough as old boots.
11  Mexican Indians used to wrap tough meat in leaves from the papaya tree.
12  It is traditional not to eat meat on Good Friday.
13  In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
14  He likes the traditional meat and two veg for his main meal.
15  Here fling this meat to the dogs in the yard.