feed

[ fiːd]

Definition:
1. Provide as food.
2. To give food to a person or an animal.
3. Support or promote.
4. Supply.

Use 'feed' in a sentence:

1. Feed the plants once a week.
2. The cattle are fed barley.
3. The grain just rotted and all they could use it for was animal feed.
4. The baby can't feed itself yet.
5. Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.
6. She was feeding documents into a paper shredder.
7. Feed plants and they grow, neglect them and they suffer.
8. The hen may not be able to feed its young.
9. You can't feed a family on £ 50 a week.
10. The barley is fed to the cattle.
11. He took the compact disc from her, then fed it into the player.
12. What do you feed the poultry on?
13. Slugs and snails feed at night.
14. The fabric is fed through the machine.
15. The longest chapter in almost any book on baby care is on feeding.
16. Birds feed on nuts and berries in the winter.
17. I'm fed up of seeing the same old faces every time we go out!
18. They needed a bath and a good feed.
19. The x-ray detectors feed the input into computer programs.
20. She criticizes me for the way I feed or change him.
21. For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
22. Feed the baby on demand.
23. A feed will usually provide instant gratification to a crying baby.
24. In the end, I just got fed up with his constant complaining.
25. Let's feed my lambs.
26. I knew absolutely nothing about handling or feeding a baby.
27. The cattle are fed on barley.
28. Have you fed the cat yet?
29. An automatic weather station feeds information on wind direction to the computer.
30. Now there would be another mouth to feed.
31. The baby can't feed itself yet (= can't put food into its own mouth) .
32. Feeding a hungry family can be expensive.
33. The printer has an automatic paper feed.
34. I have to feed the chickens and hoe the potatoes.
35. He needs feeding up some.
36. Let children feed themselves.
37. When a baby is thirsty, it feeds more often.
38. The divorce was painfully public, feeding her dislike of the press.
39. Flycatchers feed primarily on winged insects.
40. I have a hungry family to feed.
41. Gossip and speculation are constantly fed to us by the media.
42. Feed the dogs because they haven't eaten.
43. Not all women have the choice whether or not to breast feed their babies.
44. We are constantly fed gossip and speculation by the media.
45. After a few days the caterpillars stopped feeding.
46. People are fed up with all these traffic jams.
47. I'm so fed up I could scream!
48. They were helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
49. Butterflies feed on the flowers of garden plants.
50. The drinking and the guilt fed on each other.
51. Can you feed the cat, please?
52. There are numerous signs warning people not to feed the alligators in the area.
53. We brought along pieces of old bread and fed the birds.
54. He was surrounded by people who fed him ghastly lies.
55. There's enough here to feed an army.
56. She was on her own with two kids to feed and clothe.
57. At least one British officer was feeding him with classified information.
58. She fed him a cookie.
59. He needed money to feed his addiction to gambling.
60. They have a large family to feed.
61. Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock.
62. Test results will be fed back to the schools.
63. The animals all looked well fed and cared for.
64. It will take time for the higher rates to feed through to investors.
65. Power is fed into the electricity line through an underground cable.
66. The electricity line is fed with power through an underground cable.
67. The report's findings will feed into company policy.
68. Feed plants to encourage steady growth.
69. What the audience tells me feeds back into my work.